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[KeyFlock]

@Grain Gypsy
#1 Looks like a RIR or Production Red
#4 Looks like a Red Sex Link

 

[Trish44]

#1 I am guessing is a Production Red or Rhode Island Red

#2 Looks like my White Rocks and a cockerel at that

#3 Appears to have gray legs. In that case I'm going to guess Lakenvelder (I got one of those from McMurray) or Easter Egger without puffy cheeks.

#4 Red Star

Petunia is so cute and WuShock, hope his beak doesn't get any worse. I've never had a cross beak.

Love the pics!

I agree with Deerfield on the breeds & #2 is definitely a rooster. The first one is more likely a Production Red from a hatchery, they may call it a Rhode Island Red. I think #3 is most likely a Lakenvelder with those legs. I had the gold Lakenvelders once & will never have them again, they were even more flighty than Leghorns. I could never even get close to the two hens I had. When I opened the main run door in the morning they flew out the door instead of running out like the rest, geez they were crazy. The eggs were very small as well.

It's cloudy here again today, my birds just want some sun, it sure is affecting laying. We're trying to get this fence up for the goats & sheep to let them into another area to graze & clean it out. It's going slowly as usual. We have one end up but DH is working now on the other side that has to be two pieces of fence due to a big rock corner post there for the fence line going north. It takes so long to get the ends wrapped on the fence, it it wasn't for that we could have had it done. I just want it done yesterday. I can't ask him to do anything else till this fence is done but I sure could use a pickup load of bark mulch for my pens that are such a mess. I think that would help tremendously but I can't go get it by myself. I wish they would just load it for you, they have the equipment to do that but they're not allowed to so you have to shovel it yourself, ugh that is work & as wet as it is right now it would weigh a ton.

Danz congrats on getting your bobcat! I wouldn't care if it was ugly, just that it worked, that should be great to have around.

 

[ashncarson]

ashncarson, LOL! You are as nervous as I was! The Momma hen saw to it that they were safe and sound. It was really nothing to worry about. So I would watch them a bit once you let them out just to satisfy yourself all is going well and then try not to worry. Of course, I couldn't take my own advice, but I have great advice to give! It's a miracle I didn't climb back in the pen with them to make sure all was well.

SO....I did it! They did it! I had a friend over checking out our chickens as she was going to buy her first 3 every right after she left.
I told her I was just going to leave it open since I needed to let them do it anyways. We left the coop and was out of view for a few minutes. 10 minutes or less later I went to check and all but 3 where out and enjoying their time.

Mom was not being mean to the others but pecked on what I thought was the head hen a few times....

mom's sister (they are pretty much twins) I noticed pecked on a few chicks while they where all eating, they squawked but did not seem hurt or anything, but then she would feed them some food,their mom did not seem to mind she was doing that to them?







Now I don't know this evening if she will try to take them back into their booder or try the coop, I don't believe she would have any chance getting them up that far...should I move their nest container into the run

 

[Deerfield Acres]

ashncarson,

Yay!!!! I would just wait and see where mom tries to take them this evening. That's nice and sounds like everything is going just peachy. I let my 3 pullets out into the run today and they are very happy birds. They've had a few knocks on the head by some of the girls but the rooster rushed over and welcomed them into the flock. They are doing very well also. They are about 8 weeks and I finally let them out. See, I'm terrible. I can preach it, but practicing is something else.

 

[Deerfield Acres]

I stopped in for a bit of iced tea -- it is so muggy out there. I just pulled a bunch of huge radishes and nearly sank up to my ankles getting to them. They hadn't cracked but they are gigantic.

We're trying to get the 50 White Rocks moved outside before the next onslaught of rain. They are going in the orchard in their great big pen cause I don't want all those boys running amok amongst all the civilized birds. It is quite a project but we're getting there. Then I hope to get at least a couple birds caponized, we'll see.

DD is doing better today. Can't wait till this ordeal is over. Poor kid.

 

[Grain Gypsy]

So, I went back through my records to find out what the possibilities of the breeds of the chicks I have.

#1. Bugsy is (for sure) the "Assorted Rare Breed" of the April 6 hatch. Which is not really helpful, LOL. I might be wrong, but I don't think a Rhode Island Red, Production Red, or Sexlink would pass for a "rare breed." The options they give for their assorted rare breed possibilities are: Buckeye, Ancona, Easter Egger, Ameraucana (Wheaten, Blue, Black, Splash), Black Sumatra, Andalusian (Blue, Black or Splash), Appenzeller Spitzhauben, SIcilian Buttercup, Salmon Faverolles, Golden Campine, Buff Chantecler, Blue Laced Red Wyandotte, Barnevelder, Brahma (Buff or Light), Marans (Silver Cuckoo, Golden Cuckoo, Black Copper, Blue Copper, Blue Splash, White), Delaware, Dominique, Columbian Wyandotte, Dark Cornish, Cochin, Welsummer, White Sultan, Polish (assorted colors), Exchequer Leghorn, Speckled Sussex, Hamburg (assorted colors), Lakenvelder (Silver, Golden), Partridge Penedesenca, Jersey Giant, Blue Orpington, Silver Grey Dorking, Egyptian Fayoumi, Black Langshans.


Now, the next 3 are from the April 26 hatch. The ones crossed out are the only ones I know breed for certainty on: Buff Brahma (hen), Welsummer (hen), Cream Legbar (hen), Rhode Island Red (hen), Light Brahma (hen), New Hampshire Red (hen), Golden Laced Wyandotte (hen), Silver Laced Wyandotte (hen), Golden Buff Sexlink (cock), and Silver Spangled Hamburg (hen)

2. So, based on my one roo I ordered with this hatch, this one should be the Golden Buff roo.


3. Here is another picture of this little gal (the dark one).


4. The one in right of the picture above is #4, and so is the little lady under this caption.


I have a feeling it is going to take me a lot of patience and practice to be able to identify all 30 of our chickens accurately. I love the mixed flock, but it is SO confusing. At least I've got our oldest 8's breeds down pat, as well as most of the April 6 hatch. That leaves roughly 10 that I can't even make a somewhat-educated guess on.

Hopefully it will become clearer when they are older which breeds they are!

@ashncarson , I am loving that mom is successfully integrating and protecting those babies, and that mom's "twin" is offering up her auntie love, as well.

@Deerfield Acres , I hope your daughter continues to heal with no more bleeding. That is scary stuff. I know we moms can be project calmness on the outside and be terrified and/or panicking on the inside. Way to hold it together for your daughter and loving her through that scary situation.

My youngest son and daughter and I, as well as my sister 'n law and niece went to the Sedgwick County Zoo today. They have removed the flamingos from their exhibit due to the avian flu threat, but the whole time we were walking around the zoo and I was seeing all of the geese, ducks, and exotic breeds of birds, I just kept thinking, "Man. This is has got to be a hotbead for the spread of bird diseases!" I've got too much chicken on the brain!

 

[Deerfield Acres]

#1 is a Buckeye! I think. The rest I just don't know.

 

[ashncarson]

ashncarson,

Yay!!!! I would just wait and see where mom tries to take them this evening. That's nice and sounds like everything is going just peachy. I let my 3 pullets out into the run today and they are very happy birds. They've had a few knocks on the head by some of the girls but the rooster rushed over and welcomed them into the flock. They are doing very well also. They are about 8 weeks and I finally let them out. See, I'm terrible. I can preach it, but practicing is something else.

So glad that your seem to be doing well as well!! We get so much more stressed than they do!

i got home tonight about 7:20 and mommy was really stressed out, the other hens where on the roost and she could not figure out how to get her chicks up there. She would go in the coop, actually get on the roost (its been 3 months since she has been up there) and start clucking and then would go back out, look around.....

I eventually put some of the chicks back into the brooder pen and then tossed her in as well and helped all other 9 chicks one by one into the brooder..I left the lid open so they can get back out tomorrow.

We are heading to wichita tomorrow for the zoo all day and I sure hope they do OK on their own all day!

 

[ashncarson]

I am so stressing out that my pullets will become roosters after I re-home the rest......my 3 choices....UGH...its driving me crazy with worry!

 

[chicken danz]

So, I went back through my records to find out what the possibilities of the breeds of the chicks I have.



I need to make a comment here that has been omitted. A golden buff, a cinnamon queen, red star, and red sex link are all the same thing. Each hatchery has different names for them. They are not a pure bred chicken and won't breed true if you do breed them. There are several combinations of breeds that will produce the sex link gene. Normally the males are hatched white and the girls are hatched red.
So you do in fact have a golden buff, cinnamon queen, red star or red sex link. Call it what you will or what the hatchery did.

2. So, based on my one roo I ordered with this hatch, this one should be the Golden Buff roo.



3. Here is another picture of this little gal (the dark one).


4. The one in right of the picture above is #4, and so is the little lady under this caption.

The red one would have to be a New Hamp, although again not selectively bred. She is way too light. The black and white would would have to be the Hamburg.

Very long busy day today. It took me all afternoon to feed and water. I still need to go out in the dark and close things up. I moved my chocolate orpingtons to the building today. Most of the eggs the girls were sitting on were rotten. I had three that were viable but they were fairly new. This one hen has sat so long she plucked almost all of her feathers out and now she is having trouble standing. I hope she gets her legs back cause she was one of the nicer two girls. I was going to give the good eggs back to the hens but after I saw her condition, I just gave her a much needed bath and put them in the pen with no eggs. I think she would have set there and died.
Crazy birds! I'm trying to get what I can moved around so I can get some of these juveniles outside.