Hello, from California!

[swampfox440]

Hello and welcome to BYC ! how's the weather hope you all got some rain .🌧

 

[TwoCrows]

The babies are growing fast. Here they are @14 weeks old.

Awww....what cutie pies!

 

[CrazyCochin]

I have had chickens since April. I started with 5, then acquired 2 more. In July, I bought eggs to hatch and currently have (10) 8-week old chicks.

Welcome to backyard chickens!
Glad to have you, good luck with those chicks!
What types are they, if I am not prying?

 

[CrazyCochin]

The chicks

Beautiful chicks!
Soo cute!

 

[CrazyCochin]

I hatched a lavender orpington (the egg was purchased online from a farm back east). She (Laverne) is the youngest of the chicks. The first hatch (TJ) was a white fertile egg I bought at Trader Joe's. The rest were brown eggs from a local farm. I don't know their breeds. I posted pics on another thread. I'll do it here too.

Love the name of the lavender Orpington, so cool, that sounds fun to try, hatch a store egg!

 

[Sammi_0411]

Gorgeous looks like u mite have a few handsome boys there welcome to BYC

 

[BarbaraJean67]

Hello and welcome to BYC ! how's the weather hope you all got some rain .🌧

Hot, in the90's the next few days. No rain in sight. Still seeing some smokey skies from wildfires (when the wind blows it my direction).

 

[BarbaraJean67]

Welcome to backyard chickens!
Glad to have you, good luck with those chicks!
What types are they, if I am not prying?

I have one Lavender Orpington, one white Leghorn. The rest are unknown.

 

[BarbaraJean67]

Gorgeous looks like u mite have a few handsome boys there welcome to BYC

Yes, at least 2 are boys. They have started crowing and it's hilarious to hear them try. They sound like they have scratchy throats.

 

[CrazyCochin]

I have one Lavender Orpington, one white Leghorn. The rest are unknown.

For starters, the blonde one is a buff Orpington, the golden retrievers of chickens!