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She came in a hatching egg assortment I ordered from MPC last summer, so I can't be certain. Based on her phenotype, though, my best guess is that she is a Crested Cream Legbar/Welsummer cross. She's CRAZY, flightly, and tiny, but she laid a very respectable size egg for her first time, and...

My Olive Egger (24.5 weeks) decided to join the laying party today! Happy New Year!

All these Christmas babies are giving me the “chicken math” itch again! My June pullets are all grown up, and the July pullets aren’t far behind them. I guess I can’t call them chicks anymore! 3 of the 4 June girls are in full production mode now, a sure sign that longer days are right around...

Well, little miss escape artist did get her wing clipped this afternoon. Hopefully that keeps her on the right side of the fence; she's a tiny thing, so I may have to go back and do the other wing, too, but we'll see. She actually put up less of a fuss than the more tame birds did, once I...

Success! I managed to toss a bucket across the yard with just the right velocity and trajectory to scare her back over the fence this morning. :lau Hopefully she will follow the others back into the coop this evening and I will be able to get my hands on her so that I can clip her wing. That...

:wee My June chicks will be 23 weeks old tomorrow, and Reba (my RIR) laid her first egg today!! She’s been looking ready for a couple of weeks now. Since my older hens have been molting, I haven’t had a single egg in over a month. I’m very pleased with her! It’s a beauty, too. One my my...

Speaking of growing up quickly...Guess who I caught investigating the nest boxes and even singing a little abbreviated egg song this morning? Reba! (Picture isn't great due to lighting, but she's the RIR.) She'll be 16 weeks old on Monday! Seems a little young, but she has started showing some...

So sorry. It's hard to lose babies, even when you see it coming.

My June babies don't look like babies anymore! The Australorp, RIR, and Delaware are quickly surpassing my nearly year old EE and will soon outweigh the SS, too. They're starting to develop their combs and wattles, too. The Faverolles is less mature but is also starting to become a very pretty...

They're so cute!

Fingers crossed! Thank you! I think he's gorgeous, but I'm more than a little biased! :D

I relocated the chicken coop to try to give it more protection from wind and rain. Irma is predicted to hit here as a tropical storm early tomorrow morning. We are as prepared as we can be, I guess! This will be a first for all of us.

An interesting observation on flock dynamics: The four "teenagers" basically exist as their own subflock. The only time they interact with the adults is at night while roosting. The two adults I have retained are not at all aggressive towards the youngsters (except for typical pecking at roost...

I decided I needed to get my flock down to 8 before colder weather sets it, and the little cockerel had a better chance of being sold if I offered him in a package deal. So I decided to sell him, the EE who raised the July babies, and my February BO pullet. They got picked up today, and already...

I managed to get a few photos this afternoon. These little guys are very quick now!

I've been traveling a lot lately and preparing for the start of the new semester (tomorrow - ugh!). My babies aren't really babies anymore, at 10 and almost 6 weeks. Everyone is roosting with the flock now, although there is still quite a bit of fussing and chasing off and on to remind the...

It was fun! Kind of like being a kid on Christmas morning. Look at this precocious little devil!

I ordered 6 of their cheapest standard assortment. I noted on my order that I didn't care what they sent; I just needed eggs ASAP. They sent me an email almost immediately to let me know that my eggs would be shipped the next day! The eggs were all labeled. The yellow chick is a Lemon Cuckoo...

I wish I knew! I ordered a cheap batch of hatching eggs from My Pet Chicken when Hootie went broody and I couldn't break her. He hatched out of an egg labeled "Mad Scientist". :confused:

Lots of changes for my birds this week! My Speckled Sussex cockerel was picked up last night by his new owners. I think the girls are already feeling more relaxed without him around. So far, I've had good luck finding homes for my "surprise" cockerels via Craigslist and Facebook pages; let's...