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I was prepared to give them several weeks of see-but-not-touch and in-the-run-together-but-supervised. However, they just didn't need all that long! I have a few bossy little ladies, but they boss and then move on.

Here are some updated pics from last week just before I fully integrated the two batches of chicks. 2nd Batch (or as I call them, the little chicks): Blanche, LB. Dorothy, EE. Mrs. McGillicuddy, GSL. Sophia, EE. Betty, BA. Izzie, CM. 1st Batch, or as I call them, the big...

I LOOOOVE my Black Australorp! Mine is timid, but just like a teddy bear. And she is smart. Very smart. I love watching my 'chicken tv' and now that my little chicks are moved out into the coop with the big chicks, I have noticed my BA is VERY smart about negotiating the big chicks.

Thats adorable! Is your darkest chick there an EE? Their legs are showing up super "willow", love it!

I love this! My chicks love their natural branches.

Updated pics of the chickies: Betty the Black Australorp.... she is quite the sweetie pie. (2 weeks old) Sophia, the EE, who is by far the alpha chickie at the moment, even though she might qualify as the smallest. Go figure! (2 weeks old) Izzie, the Cuckoo Marans.... who is the...

Yes! Mine does that too! It is VERY annoying.

So cute!!! That first one is a curious color! Oh, and something I just learned with my newest chicks, is its actually Marans, not Maran. Always with an "s" at the end, like the city in France where they are named after. ;) Figured I would spread the word, or in this case, the "s", because I...

They are such cuties! I love the scraggly feathers. My Barred Rock was kinda a bully for a couple of weeks. Now she is actually super friendly and has calmed down. So time will tell if you have a cockerel there, but you might just have a pullet going through a mean streak. Ours was just...

I think they love me because I am the food/scratch/worm/bug/grass lady. Hahaha. Or maybe because they know I sometimes wear sparkly earrings and one day they think their gonna get those things... Hahahaha. Amen to the calling back part. I have had a few times where some of them slipped...

Figured it was about time I took pics of the crew out in the coop.... they are getting so big. Now they actually look like mini-chickens, not chicks so much. Here are the original 4.... Lacey the SLW. Rose, the stunning white EE. Lucy the BO, and Ethel the BR running from my daughter...

Her leg color is perhaps not to standard, but that is likely because she is a hatchery stock chick, not from a breeder. I believe they should have grey/slate legs, with white on the bottom of their feet. As of now she has grey on her shanks, but then it turns to yellow, and her feet are...

Actually yea they vary by amounts of black/yellow.... and they should/can have white first flight feathers. That is normal for the breed. Eventually they become all black.

The final two are here! Say hello to Izzie, a Cuckoo Maran. And Sophia, an Easter Egger. She is now our 3rd EE.... can you tell my daughters love EE's?!?!

So cute! What are yard rescues?

Well... I know for a fact you'll find out in a couple of weeks! Hahaha, can't wait to see what she is, BA, BR, or other! She is so cute.

I am still leaning towards Barred Rock. Her little first flight feathers are black (same as a Barred Rocks), my Black Australorp's first feathers are white.... and then her legs are the dark/grey/black color like a Barred Rock. BA's legs are yellow (at least mine is).

I am so excited to introduce Betty! I have been waiting FOREVER to finally have her, she is a Black Australorp. The feed store's shipments were late so we only brought her home yesterday. We were going to pick out a couple more, but they only had broilers to choose from, and I didn't want to...

Looks like a Barred Rock.

Jen, that is really funny you mentioned the flight WL and aggressive RIR, because they were not even on my list of possibilities until I wrote this. I figured MAYBE I was wrong in what I had assumed about them. Glad to know I wasn't the only one to have heard that. I figured I wouldn't be...