2018 Newbie Chat!

[PNW_Peepers]

@Cbarr00 after seeing more close up pictures I think RIR or speckled Russian Orloff. Red breeds are really hard to identify.

 

[Cbarr00]

@PNW_Peepers thank you so much! After doing some googling on the breeds I'm gonna have to agree we have RIRs. I read Russian orloffs are rare so I didn't think TSC would just sell them Willy nilly.

 

[BBZZZZTT]

8 weeks old!

 

[Dragonflydore]

They are so beautiful! What breeds?

 

[Heliliamian]

I’ll join the Newbie Chat! We just started our flock a few days ago. I am already a victim of chicken math. We agreed that 4 would be a good starting number, decided to get 6, ya know, in case we lost a couple. Well that turned into wanting 6, but getting 8, ya know, just in case we lost a couple. Pickup day arrives and we go to get our 8 chicks and lo and behold, we are offered a free chick. So 4 chicks + ?? = 9 chicks!!

2 Light Brahmas
2 Black Australorps
2 Barred Rocks
2+1 EE’s.

5/9 have already been named.

 

[CannedMonster]

I’ll join the Newbie Chat! We just started our flock a few days ago. I am already a victim of chicken math. We agreed that 4 would be a good starting number, decided to get 6, ya know, in case we lost a couple. Well that turned into wanting 6, but getting 8, ya know, just in case we lost a couple. Pickup day arrives and we go to get our 8 chicks and lo and behold, we are offered a free chick. So 4 chicks + ?? = 9 chicks!!

2 Light Brahmas
2 Black Australorps
2 Barred Rocks
2+1 EE’s.

5/9 have already been named.

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Beautiful babies! We all relate to chicken math!

 

[CannedMonster]

PICTURE DAY! 2 weeks old.

Chick #1 is a brown Naked Neck. This one is very bold and aggressive. It’s bitten me 3 times now. I need to teach it some respect before it starts hurting.

Chick #2- Naked Neck:

Chick #3- NN:

#4- NN:

#5- NN:

#6- NN:

#7- Cochin named Jelly Bean (possible Frizzle?):

Last chick #8 named Peanut- Silkie (Partridge?):

 

[Blooie]

We had a Naked Neck - accidentally. He hatched out of a shipped egg and that egg was labeled “Austrlorp”. We named him Sluf, short for Silly Looking Ugly....Fella. What did you think I was going to say?

 

[CannedMonster]

We had a Naked Neck - accidentally. He hatched out of a shipped egg and that egg was labeled “Austrlorp”. We named him Sluf, short for Silly Looking Ugly....Fella. What did you think I was going to say?

you always crack me up Blooie!
They are so ugly that I like them. Some people swear they're great layers.
Definitely a conversation piece for the yard eh?
I'm hoping I get at least a couple of pullets out of this bunch.

 

[BBZZZZTT]

8 weeks old!
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The two brown ones with gold around their necks are welsummers, the one up in the right corner is a silver laced Wyandotte, and the rest are EEs!