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We have a small flock (7 chickens), each a different breed. My experience has been that their alarm calls, egg laying songs and greetings are generally the same, but they all have their own "voice." For example, my Lavender Orpington sounds like a nasally duck compared to my Easter Egger who...

Spring 2021, the first full Spring in our newly purchased home. Starting a garden, adding to our flock (chicken math is real), and Spring cleaning. Waiting for our mail-order concord grapes to arrive to trellis up the hoop house over our coop.

2020 chicks. From left to right: Louie the Rhode Island White, Georgie the Barred Rock, Beaky the Silver Laced Wyandotte and Chihiro the Welsummer.

Chicks hatched 3/5/21. The Lavender Orpington is named Lupa and the Easter Egger is named Chigusa, which means "a thousand seeds" in Japanese.

Little Lupa, our Lav Orpington

A very proud Easter Egger.

Wow these are so gorgeous!

Our coop in the Chicago suburbs. Two story. 3'x6'

Hellloo from Batavia, a suburb of Chicago. Last Spring my fiancé and I bought our first house. The first thing we did was start scrapping wood and materials to build a coop from scratch. I have wanted chickens since I was 5 years old. A year later our original flock of 4 has been joined by 3 new...