DixxieChick
Chirping
Hi everyone! I live in northern Illinois with my husband, four children (all under 10 in 2020), two bickering sister cats and a gaggle of chickens. My friend moved and gave me her entire setup--coop, run, 12 chickens--in Dec '18. Our lives have been so much richer ever since!
*Current chickens 2020*
Four 2018 Originals:
Boo - Easter Egger mutt, blue eggs
Maran Duran - white and black Maran, dark brown speckled eggs
Thelma and Louise - 2 black Americanas, blue eggs
2019 Class:
Gracie - Silver Laced Polish, eggs unknown
Buffy - Buff Orpington, light brown eggs
Comet - Cinnamon Queen, round light brown/pink eggs
Miss Gray - Sapphire Gem (I think), olive eggs
Winnie - Gold Laced Black Wyandotte, cream or light brown eggs
The Black Beauties - 2 black Olive Eggers, olive eggs
Aussie - Black Australorp, light brown eggs
Roosty - White Leghorn who developed a serious pecking problem spring '20; currently in solitary after repeatedly pecking and drawing blood on me, hubs and our young children
2020 Babes in the Brooder:
Welly - Welsummer male
Americana male
Blue Laced Red Wyandotte - unsexed
War Paint & War Stripes - 2 Dixie Rainbow
Callie - Calico Princess
Americana female
Dark Brahma
Black Jersey Giant
Columbian Wyandotte
2 Midnight Majesty Marans
2 Cuckoo Marans
Sapphire Splash
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RIP:
2018 Originals:
Betty - little Bantam/Cochin mutt and my daughter's favorite
Red - Partridge Cochin
Ruby - RIR
3 Salmon Faverolles
Jubilee
Black Silky
2019:
Ruby Junior - RIR
Scarlet - Easter Egger
Grandma - Barred Rock
The Lizas - 2 White Crested Black or Blue Polish
Muffy - Golden Laced Polish
Silver Laced Wyandotte
Easter Egger
Four White Leghorn that hatched in my daughter's kindergarten class. Three male, one female. Curly, another male, and the female died, leaving Roosty as the sole survivor.
*Currently trying to figure out how to integrate two baby roosters into flock with grown roo who already has pecking/aggression problem toward humans.
Hope you are having a wonderful week! Take care!
*Current chickens 2020*
Four 2018 Originals:
Boo - Easter Egger mutt, blue eggs
Maran Duran - white and black Maran, dark brown speckled eggs
Thelma and Louise - 2 black Americanas, blue eggs
2019 Class:
Gracie - Silver Laced Polish, eggs unknown
Buffy - Buff Orpington, light brown eggs
Comet - Cinnamon Queen, round light brown/pink eggs
Miss Gray - Sapphire Gem (I think), olive eggs
Winnie - Gold Laced Black Wyandotte, cream or light brown eggs
The Black Beauties - 2 black Olive Eggers, olive eggs
Aussie - Black Australorp, light brown eggs
Roosty - White Leghorn who developed a serious pecking problem spring '20; currently in solitary after repeatedly pecking and drawing blood on me, hubs and our young children
2020 Babes in the Brooder:
Welly - Welsummer male
Americana male
Blue Laced Red Wyandotte - unsexed
War Paint & War Stripes - 2 Dixie Rainbow
Callie - Calico Princess
Americana female
Dark Brahma
Black Jersey Giant
Columbian Wyandotte
2 Midnight Majesty Marans
2 Cuckoo Marans
Sapphire Splash
___________
RIP:
2018 Originals:
Betty - little Bantam/Cochin mutt and my daughter's favorite
Red - Partridge Cochin
Ruby - RIR
3 Salmon Faverolles
Jubilee
Black Silky
2019:
Ruby Junior - RIR
Scarlet - Easter Egger
Grandma - Barred Rock
The Lizas - 2 White Crested Black or Blue Polish
Muffy - Golden Laced Polish
Silver Laced Wyandotte
Easter Egger
Four White Leghorn that hatched in my daughter's kindergarten class. Three male, one female. Curly, another male, and the female died, leaving Roosty as the sole survivor.
*Currently trying to figure out how to integrate two baby roosters into flock with grown roo who already has pecking/aggression problem toward humans.
Hope you are having a wonderful week! Take care!
We're so happy you've decided to join us 
