What are you adding to your flock this year?

[CloneFly]

Hoping to add some leghorns and marans next month, if we can find any!

 

[Mr Spot]

If I can find them, I would like to add 2 Leghorn pullets for the white eggs to mix with the brown and tan ones and either 2 or 3 gold or silver duck wing Game Bantam pullets.

 

[Dr Evy]

I’m not just adding, I’m starting. I have Australorp eggs on the way to start my first flock this year!

 

[ChickyMudder]

Current flock: 14
2 RIR hens - Lucy and Phoenix
1 Rusty the buff orpington rooster.
2BO hens - Mary Poopins, Hoodini Red
2 White laced Wyandotte hens - Snuggles 1 and 2
2 White Brahma hens : Cruella and Angel
1 Dominant Copper Hen - Rambo (lived through heat, cold, and a puppy accidently killing it's siblings).
4 rescues: blue saphire, turkin, two unknowns.

Adding more than I should!
Incubated 7 buff orpington RIR backyard cross. Got three black pullets ??? IDK why) and 3 pullets with RIR markings. One buff cockerel was a velociraptor in his past life so he got rehomed. Funny how one bugger stresses the flock.
Got 5 RIR pullets from jinks/coastal. They are deep dark rust colors and im so excited to see them feather out. Im sure they are production reds. Fine by me. They are super sweet and very healthy

Heres where I got impulsive …. Got 12 novagens to hatch from Jinks. Not sure why I did that. I dont want a Novagen Roo??? Should have just picked up pullets. Might call to see if we can change the order.

That puts me at 36 birds (first time ive done the math here lol) I clearly have an obsession.

Also building a 4th coop for meat birds… maybe lol i just love them so and cant commit to butcher them lol

Already dreaming of next year. I love the copper maran eggs and consider adding a few. Id like to maybe add a few Bresse to the flock.
Maybe get a White Rhode island breed quality Roo and hatch some sexlinked chicks. Not sure yet.

Maybe add a broody mom so hatching is easier. Im addicted and need a chicken recovery group. You people are a bad influence

 

[ChicksnMore]

Current flock: 14
2 RIR hens - Lucy and Phoenix
1 Rusty the buff orpington rooster.
2BO hens - Mary Poopins, Hoodini Red
2 White laced Wyandotte hens - Snuggles 1 and 2
2 White Brahma hens : Cruella and Angel
1 Dominant Copper Hen - Rambo (lived through heat, cold, and a puppy accidently killing it's siblings).
4 rescues: blue saphire, turkin, two unknowns.

Adding more than I should!
Incubated 7 buff orpington RIR backyard cross. Got three black pullets ??? IDK why) and 3 pullets with RIR markings. One buff cockerel was a velociraptor in his past life so he got rehomed. Funny how one bugger stresses the flock.
Got 5 RIR pullets from jinks/coastal. They are deep dark rust colors and im so excited to see them feather out. Im sure they are production reds. Fine by me. They are super sweet and very healthy

Heres where I got impulsive …. Got 12 novagens to hatch from Jinks. Not sure why I did that. I dont want a Novagen Roo??? Should have just picked up pullets. Might call to see if we can change the order.

That puts me at 36 birds (first time ive done the math here lol) I clearly have an obsession.

Also building a 4th coop for meat birds… maybe lol i just love them so and cant commit to butcher them lol

Already dreaming of next year. I love the copper maran eggs and consider adding a few. Id like to maybe add a few Bresse to the flock.
Maybe get a White Rhode island breed quality Roo and hatch some sexlinked chicks. Not sure yet.

Maybe add a broody mom so hatching is easier. Im addicted and need a chicken recovery group. You people are a bad influence

Your pictures are precious! But wait...don't they not count if they have a name? Your flocks actually quite small in that case!

 

[MyParadiseFalls]

Newest additions just arrived! 55 Isa brown female chicks and 7 Chinese goslings (I hatched the goslings. bought the chicks from a hatchery)

 

[Yvette In California]

We just added three Easter Eggers to our tiny flock. They are about 21 weeks now and already laying these incredible green eggs! One of the three of them (we're not yet sure which one) has more of a blue tinge to the egg shell colour. Not gonna lie, it has been fun seeing the new eggs and how shell colour is both inside and out.

 

[Chick-n-duck mom]

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That’s funny!

 

[mickichan]

Adding a lot this year! Our flock got super small. Down to a couple of EEs, one "grandma" hen that we love, and a surprise clutch that hatched last fall of EE/Silkie cross. This year I've ordered:
Yokohamas (Silver Duckwing and Red Shouldered) (new breeding program, woohoo!),
Mottled Houdans,
and an assortment of Marans, Saphire Gems, Olive Eggers, and Easter Eggers.
I may also get my hands on some Lavender Orpingtons (fingers crossed)

 

[The Birb King]

I already have a pretty good variety but since I am showing chickens now I try to breed specific breeds and my other breeds are just for eggs or enjoyment. This will be my first year hatching true purebreds since my Ameraucanas and Marans started laying a few months ago. I stuffed a bunch of their eggs in my incubator as well as some Serama eggs I ordered. 6 days left until hatching!

Today is hatch day! So far 4 have hatched im really exited