The Fab Fifteen!

[Iluveggers]

Please meet my new crew! Picked them up last night!
Louise (EE1)
Muffin (Sapphire Gem)
Plucky (Australorp 1)
Henrietta (Australorp 2)
Bernadette (Australorp 3)
Clover (EE2)
Freddie (New Hampshire)
Peaches (Buckeye)
Thelma (EE3)
(Waiting on DD to name her) (Barred1)
Crouton (GLW1)
Butternut (GLW2)
Daffodil (GLW3)
Penelope (Barred2)
Basil (Barred3)

I am truly in love! So behind on postings (not to mention housework/garden work!) I could watch them all day!

Hope you all enjoy the pictures!

 

[WhoDatChick]

So adorable! Makes me want more

 

[Iluveggers]

So adorable! Makes me want more

Thank you! They are so sweet and already come over to me when I open the brooder, & I don’t even give them treats!

 

[Sally PB]

Looking forward to pictures as they grow.

 

[Iluveggers]

Looking forward to pictures as they grow.

Thanks! I’m sure they’ll grow way too fast...

 

[yakitori]

So these are your cuties !!
I totally didn’t stalk you here

I love all their names! I’m so bad with names, lol. I mostly gave up and named my birds after their breed, color or pattern

 

[Iluveggers]

So these are your cuties !!
I totally didn’t stalk you here

I love all their names! I’m so bad with names, lol. I mostly gave up and named my birds after their breed, color or pattern

No such thing as stalking when it comes to new baby chickies! Thank you on the names compliment! I had some help from the family, we had a notebook with ideas and descriptions of each chick (our first babies so everyone was super in to it!) My daughter finally decided on Macaroni (for the unknown named chick). I think it’s a perfect name! Yankee Doodle/stuck a feather in his cap, and called it Macaroni, and she has white feathering on her head! (Plus Macaroni is an adorable name anyway). Daffodil has her name because of the slight gold flower pattern above her eyes, Peaches is orange, Crouton is brown/gold. Naming with coloring/pattern works! Clover is my favorite, and although she is chocolate brown, she is an EE with greenish legs so I’m PRAYING she lays green eggs which would go so cute with her name! Lucky Clover!

 

[yakitori]

No such thing as stalking when it comes to new baby chickies! Thank you on the names compliment! I had some help from the family, we had a notebook with ideas and descriptions of each chick (our first babies so everyone was super in to it!) My daughter finally decided on Macaroni (for the unknown named chick). I think it’s a perfect name! Yankee Doodle/stuck a feather in his cap, and called it Macaroni, and she has white feathering on her head! (Plus Macaroni is an adorable name anyway). Daffodil has her name because of the slight gold flower pattern above her eyes, Peaches is orange, Crouton is brown/gold. Naming with coloring/pattern works! Clover is my favorite, and although she is chocolate brown, she is an EE with greenish legs so I’m PRAYING she lays green eggs which would go so cute with her name! Lucky Clover!

Ooooh Macaronis is such an adorable name! your kids did a great job with all the names <3 I’m sure they’ll get a lot of enjoyment raising the babies in the weeks to come.

Are they straight run or sexed chicks?

My creativity goes as far as naming my paint satin “Paint”. LOL

 

[Iluveggers]

Ooooh Macaronis is such an adorable name! your kids did a great job with all the names <3 I’m sure they’ll get a lot of enjoyment raising the babies in the weeks to come.

Are they straight run or sexed chicks?

My creativity goes as far as naming my paint satin “Paint”. LOL

We went with sexed this time, knowing there’s a margin of error. We are raising the chicks in the house for the first 6 weeks or so, then they will go down the road to the family farm to eventually lay eggs. We can keep up to 2 roosters (there’s 3 “big girl” chickens in the small coop there now), and this group will go to the large coop (fits about 25!) together. There’s two more larger coops coming there next year, so we may have a lot more chicks come spring! The kids love having the babies here with us, so hopefully all the aunts will continue to let us “help” this way. We don’t have the space in my yard for much, so we are fortunate to have chickens in our lives this way. We will probably go down the street to see them every day once they are there, and we are in charge of them when my aunt is out of town. I wish we could keep a few here, but I’m fortunate it works out this way for us! Eventually once we take over the farm at retirement, I would love to have a small hatchery, selling chicks & fertilized eggs. My aunts think there is no market for it, but they haven’t been on BYC!

How many chickens did you say you guys have? Are you planning to add on more? (I say that loosely knowing sometimes more come without a plan lol)

 

[yakitori]

We went with sexed this time, knowing there’s a margin of error. We are raising the chicks in the house for the first 6 weeks or so, then they will go down the road to the family farm to eventually lay eggs. We can keep up to 2 roosters (there’s 3 “big girl” chickens in the small coop there now), and this group will go to the large coop (fits about 25!) together. There’s two more larger coops coming there next year, so we may have a lot more chicks come spring! The kids love having the babies here with us, so hopefully all the aunts will continue to let us “help” this way. We don’t have the space in my yard for much, so we are fortunate to have chickens in our lives this way. We will probably go down the street to see them every day once they are there, and we are in charge of them when my aunt is out of town. I wish we could keep a few here, but I’m fortunate it works out this way for us! Eventually once we take over the farm at retirement, I would love to have a small hatchery, selling chicks & fertilized eggs. My aunts think there is no market for it, but they haven’t been on BYC!

How many chickens did you say you guys have? Are you planning to add on more? (I say that loosely knowing sometimes more come without a plan lol)

I currently have 3 LF layers, 1 bantam satin hen, 3 eight week teenagers and 2 tiny peepers.

I downsized a little a few weeks back, but chicken math is really catching up to me again

Maybe you could get a few bantams to have indoors? I’m planning on getting some bantam welsummers soon. I hear they lay quite well for a bantam and are fairly small (though not as small as the other bantams). There’s one member on here who even keeps her indoor in a rabbit hutch!

Oh! you’re in NY too :O where did you buy your chicks from?