Hens and Honeybees in the Berrypatch
Michigan
My Orpy hen hatched some OEG Bantam eggs.
This hatchling tormented Mom for several minutes.
How many chicks can you fit on a brick?
Awkward juvenile stage? BBOEGB (ha...)
Baby Barnevelder pullets
Lavender Ameraucana Bantam hen (John Blehm line)
I love those eyes and the way she looks like a dove...
Lavender Ameraucana Bantam chicks hatched out by Large Fowl broody
Black chicks = Lavender Ameraucana bantam x BBOEGB hen
This is all I get after banding them that morning! Chicken run!!!
Maybe OEG Blue Bantams? This one was purchased and popped under Betsy with the chicks
This is his little hen. 3 weeks old?
8.5 week old Silver Penciled Rock pullet
3 Silver Penciled Rock cockerels: 8.5 weeks old, then 21 weeks old:
Youngster Cuckoo Marans in outside pen for the first time.
Cuckoo Marans pullet 1 wk old
Cuckoo Marans roos will show more white on them as little chicks.
below: 1 week old roo on left and pullet on right
Cuckoo Marans roo at center, pullets to right (and left) at 2 weeks
One Year later:
Note how small and pale the comb is while broody
Toaster Black Breasted OEGB
White Plymouth Rock oversized yolk
Ameraucana / Easter Eggers
Toaster is our first rooster: Black Breasted OEG Bantam with 3 hens. We also have 4 blue OEG Bantams, 4 Lavender Ameraucana Bantams, 2 Mille Fleur OEG, 3 Buff Brahmas, 4 beautiful crosses, 2 Vorwerks, For Large Fowl we have 9 EasterEggers, 3 Cuckoo Marans, 1 Black Copper Marans, 3 Barnevelders, 3 Javas, 1 cross, 3 Silver Penciled Plymouth Rock, 3 Isa Browns and 6 Heritage Delawares. Our miniature Australian Shepherd keeps them all in line.
Hens and Honeybees in the Berrypatch
Michigan
My Orpy hen hatched some OEG Bantam eggs.
This hatchling tormented Mom for several minutes.
![aaachickbrick.jpg aaachickbrick.jpg](https://www.backyardchickens.com/data/attachments/1349/1349146-77f06f6dc5752c4b770bddc8c78e37cd.jpg)
![banteechicks74095wksa.jpg banteechicks74095wksa.jpg](https://www.backyardchickens.com/data/attachments/1349/1349147-ce9c97cafacbd09057efc1fecd65c90d.jpg)
![banteechicks74095wksd.jpg banteechicks74095wksd.jpg](https://www.backyardchickens.com/data/attachments/1349/1349148-2c4228865433fa55e40025b0c4f6f7dc.jpg)
Awkward juvenile stage? BBOEGB (ha...)
We sadly lost this little fella to a neighbor cat. Probably defending his sisters...
Dad and a Mom on right. 1 yr daughter on left. Black Breasted OEG Bantams (not broody)
(Background: Betsy EE broody with Lavender 'cana chicks)
(Background: Betsy EE broody with Lavender 'cana chicks)
Baby Barnevelder pullets
Barnevelder hen year old
![27158_byc_lav_hen.jpg 27158_byc_lav_hen.jpg](https://www.backyardchickens.com/data/attachments/1349/1349152-047c5a9ab62d2e7a2ec41b407c963d6a.jpg)
Lavender Ameraucana Bantam hen (John Blehm line)
I love those eyes and the way she looks like a dove...
![27158_betsy_chicks_08.jpg 27158_betsy_chicks_08.jpg](https://www.backyardchickens.com/data/attachments/1349/1349154-4101eb8af183b9adb2c9f480b95472ea.jpg)
Lavender Ameraucana Bantam chicks hatched out by Large Fowl broody
![27158_betsy_chicks_09.jpg 27158_betsy_chicks_09.jpg](https://www.backyardchickens.com/data/attachments/1349/1349155-4e7dbb735949fa7e82b7b531bc2cf4a8.jpg)
Black chicks = Lavender Ameraucana bantam x BBOEGB hen
![27158_6wk_c2.jpg 27158_6wk_c2.jpg](https://www.backyardchickens.com/data/attachments/1349/1349156-325421b3dfca63d74a98f7eea380239c.jpg)
This is all I get after banding them that morning! Chicken run!!!
![27158_chick_who_is_this.jpg 27158_chick_who_is_this.jpg](https://www.backyardchickens.com/data/attachments/1349/1349157-7c3fb7a623dd2f7d5740ebb1e299f5e0.jpg)
Maybe OEG Blue Bantams? This one was purchased and popped under Betsy with the chicks
Here he is at 15 weeks
![27158_gray_02_523.jpg 27158_gray_02_523.jpg](https://www.backyardchickens.com/data/attachments/1349/1349159-ddf060c9432b4470a362a46821e12c70.jpg)
This is his little hen. 3 weeks old?
New little "penciled" wing tips on 10 day old
Silver Penciled Plymouth Rock.
Silver Penciled Plymouth Rock.
![27158_white_hen_080410_8731.jpg 27158_white_hen_080410_8731.jpg](https://www.backyardchickens.com/data/attachments/1349/1349161-df08a1ec0c1b2763265c7d2c232f87fd.jpg)
8.5 week old Silver Penciled Rock pullet
3 Silver Penciled Rock cockerels: 8.5 weeks old, then 21 weeks old:
![27158_img_9275_yellow_h_798x800.jpg 27158_img_9275_yellow_h_798x800.jpg](https://www.backyardchickens.com/data/attachments/1349/1349163-b752f79ab402f0f8147af5dd6019da48.jpg)
![27158_img_9283_blue_k_781x800.jpg 27158_img_9283_blue_k_781x800.jpg](https://www.backyardchickens.com/data/attachments/1349/1349167-77ae3aef7cbb27752cfdb63e2b9057df.jpg)
![27158_img_6034_723x800.jpg 27158_img_6034_723x800.jpg](https://www.backyardchickens.com/data/attachments/1349/1349168-aa5b1a3d64f7642d63f3fb8b55f7b048.jpg)
photo credit: Josiah, 13
Heritage Delaware Pullet in the early morning fog.
Broody Orpington teaching Delawares and Penciled Rocks how to scratch up my flowerbeds....
"just the weeds, please"
"just the weeds, please"
![july3withameraucanas.jpg july3withameraucanas.jpg](https://www.backyardchickens.com/data/attachments/1349/1349171-6e9e57bd6d6b4b3e88e69d01772bc6a0.jpg)
Youngster Cuckoo Marans in outside pen for the first time.
(roo in front on right)
Slightly older Ameraucanas outside suddenly discovering them.
Slightly older Ameraucanas outside suddenly discovering them.
![27158_purple_1wk_a.jpg 27158_purple_1wk_a.jpg](https://www.backyardchickens.com/data/attachments/1349/1349172-096e85a17a395c2d92e7f17ae59d72c6.jpg)
Cuckoo Marans roos will show more white on them as little chicks.
below: 1 week old roo on left and pullet on right
![27158_white_2wks_a.jpg 27158_white_2wks_a.jpg](https://www.backyardchickens.com/data/attachments/1349/1349174-1ce853bf0a76077ba8080ba7569beac6.jpg)
Cuckoo Marans roo at center, pullets to right (and left) at 2 weeks
One Year later:
Simon Pierre, Cuckoo Marans roo and one of his hens. 1 yr old
He's so heavy that saddles are needed to protect the hens' backs.
![27158_betsy_chicks_04.jpg 27158_betsy_chicks_04.jpg](https://www.backyardchickens.com/data/attachments/1349/1349176-573f60f0d66c623a059469ad2a4ab444.jpg)
Note how small and pale the comb is while broody
![aaatoast.jpg aaatoast.jpg](https://www.backyardchickens.com/data/attachments/1349/1349177-a2726c11cdc27e31aed4dd627a33cd8e.jpg)
Toaster Black Breasted OEGB
White Plymouth Rock oversized yolk
![27158_betsy_02_july_09.jpg 27158_betsy_02_july_09.jpg](https://www.backyardchickens.com/data/attachments/1349/1349179-3ff5dceecfb102a5a0b25550e01d9ee6.jpg)
![chickc2wkd.jpg chickc2wkd.jpg](https://www.backyardchickens.com/data/attachments/1349/1349180-57136380588ed6232fe2e724634b6d2c.jpg)
Ameraucana / Easter Eggers
![27158_egg_04.jpg 27158_egg_04.jpg](https://www.backyardchickens.com/data/attachments/1349/1349181-cb56fb7d68dd7ab8661d054df1d38ac4.jpg)
![27158_egg_03.jpg 27158_egg_03.jpg](https://www.backyardchickens.com/data/attachments/1349/1349182-973982bb8873b1dca372a61e21ec3280.jpg)
![27158_egg_01.jpg 27158_egg_01.jpg](https://www.backyardchickens.com/data/attachments/1349/1349183-3ffaee862e463d28bdeab91b4465e0df.jpg)
![27158_egg_05.jpg 27158_egg_05.jpg](https://www.backyardchickens.com/data/attachments/1349/1349184-1ce5fe6b8bd5af9025b518222eab8e8b.jpg)
![27158_egg_02.jpg 27158_egg_02.jpg](https://www.backyardchickens.com/data/attachments/1349/1349185-e68a474111179f52be0e0016daa926a3.jpg)
![27158_bowl_of_eggs.jpg 27158_bowl_of_eggs.jpg](https://www.backyardchickens.com/data/attachments/1349/1349142-3e3224556acac49ce257a4ffc77b7d88.jpg)
Toaster is our first rooster: Black Breasted OEG Bantam with 3 hens. We also have 4 blue OEG Bantams, 4 Lavender Ameraucana Bantams, 2 Mille Fleur OEG, 3 Buff Brahmas, 4 beautiful crosses, 2 Vorwerks, For Large Fowl we have 9 EasterEggers, 3 Cuckoo Marans, 1 Black Copper Marans, 3 Barnevelders, 3 Javas, 1 cross, 3 Silver Penciled Plymouth Rock, 3 Isa Browns and 6 Heritage Delawares. Our miniature Australian Shepherd keeps them all in line.
Hens and Honeybees in the Berrypatch