Rarely Photographed Girls in My Flock

Im sure not creating breeds, but Tux is a happy accident that most people on BYC know about. She also has two, almost identical sisters. She was supposed to be a purebred Barred Rock, but my friend Kate's very elderly (now deceased, RIP, Big Red) Cochin/Silkie cross rooster, thought to be infertile, apparently wasn't, LOL. He went out in style by procreating several lovely daughters and sons, three of whom I now proudly own. Then poor boy kicked the bucket soon afterward. BTW, they had one brother who looked exactly like a Barred Rock, except for his poufy head. Very cute. They are three treasures, I tell you.
 
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Thanx for the pix...helps folks like me get a handle on what breeds are what. (I know mine, but that's about it!) Dig the 'treasures' bit. I talk like this about our girls.
 
The solid black one on the first page is the Cochin/Silkie x Barred Rock cross, if that's the one you mean, Jeff. I have three of those girls. Then of course, the purebred Barred Rocks and the SilverLaced Wyandottes.
 
Lovely pic of your hens, Speckled - they don't fly over that piece of trellis on top of your steps? I'm trying to figure ways to keep them out of my built in flower boxes to no avail.
 
They invade the deck regularly. Correction, the Barred Rock Marauders invade the deck regularly, LOL. Occasionally, my lap chicken RIR, Rosemary, goes up there, looking for the scratch can, but it's almost always the BR girls. I've had that same problem since Lexie and Ivy were just about 12 week old and ate all my spinach plants growing on the deck. Heck in the last two days, my flock has decimated three beds of lambs ear thats been here a long time! Guess it was the closest thing to green they've seen in awhile.
 

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