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This lovely Olive Egger has a name now. She's Nugget.

Got the purple band girl's photos when I was closing up the coop.

And the rest of them. Green Band, Blue Australorp female Blue Band, Blue Australorp female Pink Band, Black Australorp male Pink Band, Blue Australorp male Red Band, Black-or-very-dark-Blue Australorp female There is also one with a purple Band who is a blue, feather-footed...

Chipotle's kids. Her daughter, Ancho, who is a definite keeper. Her son, who was obviously a boy at only 2 weeks old and is the ringleader for all the mischief this batch has been getting into.

Last night when I went to close up the coop I tucked the Easter Eggs into pet carriers so I could evaluate them and change their leg bands this morning. With the help of my 16yo, who has claimed the right to choose which girls we keep in the flock, I got good photos of everyone. BTW, if any...

They're crazy little things. I think that Chipotle's son, the white cockerel who was obviously male at 2 weeks old, is the ringleader.

I've already had to add extra step-in posts to my netting and need some more just to deal with the sag. I am planning on a separate set of step-in posts to put up the 2" plastic mesh a few inches inside the electric. It worked last year with the metal u-posts, but I need those for other purposes.

We thought of adding plastic netting to it but when we tried it rapidly got too heavy and awkward and used a lot more zipties than we were willing to use. In the past I've put out an inner curtain of that netting but I'm using the U-posts in the garden and haven't bought the step-in posts I...

The little escape artists are 6 1/2 weeks old and doing some unauthorized free ranging. They have learned to jump up and scoot through the larger squares of the electric net.

Well, the chicks have had an adventure and keeping them in the integration pen seems quite impossible. https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/early-integration.1528356/

I found a couple more of the chicks out of the integration pen again. In the daylight this time I was able to figure out exactly how they were achieving it and close it up more firmly. I actually considered just letting them be but they couldn't seem to find their way back in and the adults...

It's one of my Easter chicks. Since I haven't been out at the coop much for the past 6 weeks on account of having been ill (the 16yo did most of the chicken care) I thought for a moment that a broody had snuck in a nest in a corner somewhere. But I felt the leg and found the band so I know...

I went out to check on them after dark and *thought* they were all fine -- though I wasn't happy to see them perching on their feeder. Then I went to put a hen saddle on a barebacked lady and, when I went to pick her up, I saw a chick on the perch pretty much under her!I will have to...

P.S. Though there are many more photos, there are 14 chicks. 6 olive eggers and 8 Australorp crosses.

Moved them to the integration pen this afternoon. Today's edition of our favorite picture show: Indignant Chicks in Awkward Positions. :D I think at least 2 of the Olive Eggers are female.

Being sick has really screwed up the record-keeping for this batch. I looked in on them last night just at dark and found them cuddled up nowhere near the brooder plate. Time to get them into the main coop for integration. I'm feeling a bit better on the latest round of new meds and can start...

I will be happy if she can eat well enough to grow to harvest size along with the cull cockerels. I'd hate to have to cull a chick to young to eat -- it would be so wasteful and sad.

Alas, I have a crossbeak. Olive Egger no-band is going to be a chicken dinner. Assuming that she can eat well enough to grow up that far. I don't know anything about the causes or treatment of crossbeaks -- whether it's genetic, environmental, or what. Time to search the articles and threads.

I don't have a run for the brooder yet. I have plans to add one.

I'm keeping Ancho, because I want one of Chiptotle's daughters. I'll keep a couple olive egger girls. But I'm going to hatch more until I get a few splash Australorps to further the breeding of the Blue Australorps.