Fellow Illini here... Mattoon to be exact. Just starting out with chickens. We wanted fresh eggs and I have quickly learned there are so many varieties! Currently have Black australorp, Delaware, cinnamon queen, araucana/ameraucana and couple others that I am not sure of. All mine are around...
My dad gave me some chickens he bought. He was told there were araucana/ameraucana in the mix along with black australorps, black sex link, cinnamon queens and a couple Delaware. Just looking for some thoughts as to what these 2 are. The bird in first picture comb appears to have a flat spot in...
Just stopped to say hello. We live in central Illinois... no not Chicago ;)
I grew up on a farm so animals and farm.life are not new to me. Chickens however was one animal we did not have(but the neighbors did)
Our brood consist of 4 black australorp, 1 cinnamon queen, 1 delaware, 1...