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She does look quite chunky, but a lot of that is fluff :lol: Her "working title" was The Pretty One, but she doesn't have a permanent name yet. We need to reach a family consensus on that :D

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Thank you! Don't tell the others, but she's my favorite, too 😊 We've had a thing ever since she was a baby and would crawl up in my hand to snuggle while the others were out exploring 🥰 She still does it, too! Her shaggy forehead is hilarious :lol: She's the only one brave enough to insert...

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Long-overdue update: 4 months! The chicks have really filled out and are now bigger than my adult Barnevelders! And each one of them has something quirky about her, which breaks the breed standard but also makes her more interesting and unique. Here's Pooh. She used to be the largest when...

I'm farm-sitting for my friend who lets me borrow her incubator, and who's growing out my partridge boys until butcher time. She's on vacation for a week. I went to do chicken chores today, was standing upright doing something and my boys FLEW up at me from the floor and perched on my arms!!! I...

She might be the lowest, actually. She’s the smallest hen. It’s always been hard for me to figure out a linear pecking order with this flock. They get along pretty well, and have no obvious leader. The Orpingtons are pushier when it comes to food and dominate the Barnevelders in that context...

Thanks! I still have to fight the knee jerk reaction whenever I see a hen peck my babies (they are my babies!), but it’s getting better every day and they seem happy, relaxed and at home ❤️

Big milestones in the integration progress! Check this out. The ultimate sign of acceptance - sharing my lap! :lol: Butt to butt :love Now, to be fair, that is the hen who raised chicks for me this past spring and has since remained friendly with the partridge chicks (even though she didn't...

@aart how's your broody situation going? I decided to try a new broody breaking method that would be less stressful to the hen (my broody was so nice to me while sitting and raising her chicks, that I didn't want to break her trust by stuffing her in a cage). It was an experiment, but it...

P.S. They have integrated wonderfully with the flock, and are living a full and proper chicken life now - going into the coop on their own and going up to the top of their roost for the night, and using every part of the run freely. It only took them 4 days to learn to go inside the coop and up...

9 week photo update! Absolutely 100% all three are female. Wohoo! Pooh: The Baby: The Pretty One: They don't have official names yet... Here are some top down views so you can see just how different their patterns are, even though they are the same breed from the same breeder: All...

Guys, I’m impressed. All it took was 4 nights, and on the 5th, my chicks went into the coop on their own AND went up onto their roost on their own, without me having to move them from the nesting box top anymore! They did it! 🥰 They are on the lower level of their roosting structure, but...

Of course, I’m just talking about the statistics and the likelihoods.

Good luck. I have my broody jail ready and waiting, but I want to see if keeping her out of the coop might work first 🤞 Barnevelders rarely ever go broody, from what I’ve heard. I expected it from the Orpingtons. My chickens are all backwards (I do have unusual variations of the breeds though...

She’s officially broody… Again! Went back to the nest in the morning and camped out there for the day. Her voice has broken into the broody cluck, too 😞 I waited until everybody was done laying for the day, carried her out and closed up the coop. They have food and water in the run. So the coop...

Night 4 and one of the chicks braved the big girls’ bedroom!! I am seriously impressed. It was the dark one, which is the bravest of the bunch in general. The hens were very WTF about it, but it was too dark for them to do anything 😄 The other two chicks settled on top of the nesting box...

I’ve heard of that and was a little nervous this spring… But none of mine have gone broody yet. Maybe it’s certain lines or types of Orps? I’ve heard that Buffs are obsessively broody. I don’t have any though.

Alert and aware they are, so they might do well free ranging (I don’t free range so I can’t speak to that). But they definitely notice and complain about anything new in their environment. The Orps can’t be bothered though. They are like immovable tanks and just don’t care 😄 I can picture a...

They are loud! Which gives me constant anxiety because I have problems with my neighbors who hate chickens. My Barnevelders yell the egg song before, during and after laying, and also if another hen is in the nest they want, they will yell the egg song at her until she leaves the nest (if she...