I have some questions....

[sumi]

If you post some nice clear close-ups of them here someone will tell you what they are:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/f/15/what-breed-or-gender-is-this

 

[missnu01]

I am not too worried about it...the one hen that is laying does it well, I know that the Hen and chicks we just got are all just mixed random yard birds, and I am alright with that...
In the spring I plan on adding some chicks. I would like to have a cochin or 3, and some actual leghorn hens. I figure in no time I will have my own random flock of yardbirds, so no reason not to start there...ya know? I'm not looking for show chickens...just some eggs and some food that I know where it comes from.

 

[missnu01]

I feel as though it is possible that the brown hen is a buff orpington...She sure looks like one, and she is the correct size...the guy that i got her from said she was a Golden Comet, but she isn't splashed with any white...just that light brown color and she is really large...already too large to be a comet if what I am reading is correct...

She is very funny...

Anyway,

I introduced the new chicks and hen right? Well the chickens we got first didn't care one bit...but they still act like they are 2 separate flocks...the momma and her chicks, and then our rooster and his hens...they won't meld...
I mean they all eat together and walk around together, but they aren't integrated ya know what I mean. So will they become a singular flock at some point?

My cat was able to single out a chick and the rooster answer to the threat was to take his hens and go back in the coop...leaving the momma to fend for her chicks alone...I mean if they stay divided, whatever...we have the room for them to share the space but continue to ignore each other.

 

[sumi]

Flock dynamics is a funny thing. I've had many chickens over the years and I've mixed groups and they do like to keep themselves to themselves (except my roosters who were thrilled with the new girls). Over time they do absorb new chicks though. They will peck them a bit and push them around a bit, but after awhile they'll mesh. Bigger chickens were a different story by me though. My established flock stayed together and the newbies stayed together and they never really mixed. But they had a lot of space, so it was easy for them.

 

[Smoochie]

The white ones look to be white Orpingtons. And yes the will bond together more with time.

 

[Eggcessive]

I would leave the mother hen with her chicks. One day she will walk away from them and leave them on their own--it may be at 5 weeks or 12 weeks, and the longer she stays with them the better off the chicks are. She just won't be laying again until a month or so after she leaves them. She will keep them separate, and they will be a separate group for quite awhile after they are weaned--that's normal. Your buff chicken's comb looks way to pale to start laying for a time. They will get bright red before she does.

 

[sumi]

My last broody started laying when her chicks were about 8 weeks old. She'd leave them for a bit, go lay an egg, go back to the chicks and wander around with them. Do it again the next day.

 

[missnu01]

My last broody started laying when her chicks were about 8 weeks old. She'd leave them for a bit, go lay an egg, go back to the chicks and wander around with them. Do it again the next day.

Well, you can see in the pics that the chicks are pretty large, and fully feathered...They also hold their own against the other chickens, but they like being with her, and she likes being with them. I wouldn't separate them simply because there is only the single chicken space...They are all getting along though...the older chickens don't peck at the babies, but the brown hen does puff and rush them from time to time, but they puff right back and she just backs down...Lol.

I am hoping I'll start getting more than one egg a day soon...The eggs are super tasty, but I really eat more than one for breakfast...lol.

 

[missnu01]

Thank you guys for all your help. I can agree that the white chickens certainly do look like what google says a white orpington looks like. Which would make sense as to why the brown one looks like a buff orpington and I bought them all together...All I know is they are easily 2x the size I was expecting...I showed up with a medium sized box, but once I saw them I was like whoa, those are some big chickens...

 

[missnu01]

The white chicken that is laying lays medium sized pinkish colored eggs, which also fits with orpingtons...and their legs are white and not yellow...I just took the guy at his word and didn't really look into it. But they are really big...and the rooster will eat out of my hand...the chickens are just now coming around to recognizing me, and not being afraid to come close...
This also explains why my rooster is not as fierce as I would expect such a large rooster to be. He only crows a few times in the morning, and if you aren't listening for it then you will miss it.
The smaller hen that is laying lays very well, even though it is winter...but the larger of the white hens doesn't lay at all so far...I was going to give her until spring, but I might not.