Hello, new here to BYC as well as to chickens in general. Thought I'd introduce myself (and I guess the household in general) since I'm sure I'll have many questions in the weeks to come (I've already collected a few).
Our neighbors have had chickens for several years now and after several years of chicken and egg envy, we finally decided to buy a coop and chicks this year. Our coop is currently a work in progress and, as far as chicks go, we have at least 8 too many! To be fair, we were told they were all straight run and we got 3-4 of each breed so we'd get a hen (which still isn't a guarantee).
Our little babies are in the house in a brooder they seem to be quickly outgrowing (we only got them Friday!). We have 4 Black Australorps (I'm suspicious they're actually all pullets since we got them from Cal Ranch and they rang up as pullets), 4 Bantam EEs, 3 Bantam Frizzles (possibly Cochins), and a Barred Rock/Frizzle mix (I drove all the way down to Spanish Fork for this one so hopefully its a lady). Everyone is about 3-4 weeks old, except the EEs which are only about a week.
In the end we'll need to narrow down our brood of 12 to just 4 chicks, one of each kind. We're anxiously waiting to see who in our brood might be roosters, since our city doesn't allow them. I swear I check on them at least 5 times a day, each time thinking 'is somebody in here looking/acting like a rooster?!'
(Speaking of, I'm just going to post this because I hear an EE chirping really loud. I need to check on those babies.)
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