Overrrun with chicks!! How many of you have bought too many chicks!!??

[Spunky~Chick~Mom]

Lets see.... I started out by adopting 2 roos from a co worker.
(Barred Rock and RIR)

Then got
6 laying hens Red Stars *who i am trading for 9 just laying
black australorps next week.

Then got a few chicks from a shared order.
Now 4 weeks old
3 silver spangled hamburgs (*2 hens and a roo)
2 white leghorns
1 buff silkie
1 blue andalusian

6 silkie eggs in the bator

Order coming in at the end of June.
1 partridge cochin
1 silver laced cochin
1 buff cochin
1 salmon faverolle
2 light brahma
2 speckled sussex
2 black langhan
2 mottled java
2 buff orph
2 ameraucana
2 barred rock
2 blue andalusian
2 delaware
2 gold laced wyandotte

My dh has no idea how many we are getting..... I keep telling him a total of 40 but he thinks i am kidding. And I look everyday at what else I can order or buy from you guys!! lol!!

 

[emartin]

Currently we have:

14-19weeks old, all pullets:
2 Barred Rocks
2 Buff Orpingtons
1 Delaware
3 Ameraucana mutts (EEs)
1 Cuckoo Maran
2 Rhode Island Reds

7 week olds, pullets:
3 Gold Laced Wyandottes
3 Silver Laced Wyandottes (worst strain ever, we are not sure if we are keeping ANY of them)

2-8 week olds, some pullets but mostly ST RUN, still inside the house:
3 Silver Spangled Spitzhauben Appenzellers
1 Silver Phoenix
~12 Gold Laced Polish
1 Buff Laced Polish
1 Silver Laced Polish
1 All White Polish
1 Patridge Cochin, std
1 White Cochin, std
1 White Crested Black Polish
2 Jersey Giants
2 Australorps
2 Welsummers
4 Ameraucana mutts (EEs)

2 week olds, st run:
4 Red Silkies
4 White Silkies
4 Buff Silkies
1 Lavender Silkies

We obviously went on an impulsive spending spree .

~Ed