 Recently, Sosa (2003a,b), Poston (2007) and Markie (2009) have raised the problem of the speckled hen in objection to the acquaintance theorist’s conception of noninferential justification. The speckled hen presents an appearance of, say, 48 speckles. One is, they assume, directly acquainted with one’s visual field replete with the 48 speckles. Yet unless one has counted the speckles, one is unlikely to have justification for believing that one’s visual field contains the 48 speckles. Even if one guesses correctly the number of speckles in the field, one’s guess hardly counts as a justified belief. Direct acquaintance with truthmakers for one’s belief is, then, clearly not sufficient for noninferential justification.