What are you adding to your flock this year?

[Nero70002]

0 + 1EE (light partridge?) + 3 Silkies (1 partridge?, 1 splash?, 1 black) + 3 Buff Orpingtons + Soon to be 3 Welsh Harlequins

 

[Ponypoor]

Fun idea for a thread. Congrats on getting it featured. I would like to stop supporting the hatchery industry and I am so thrilled to have found a local breeder. She only carries a few breeds, and expects chicks in about three weeks or so. I’m hoping to get to each of Isabella Leghorns and French Blue Copper Marans.

Oh how egg-citing ! Can’t wait to see them! So you expect to get them in a few weeks? I won’t say a word

 

[becstalls]

We are restarting our flock this year and I’m hoping to get two each of Mottled Javas, Barred Rocks, Black copper Marans, Easter Eggers, Olive Eggers, and Cream Legbars. But at the end of the day, it will be a dozen of what I can manage to get my hands on.

 

[SueT]

When my broodies get going, they’re going to hatch just a few (3or4) of our eggs which are from a Spitzhauben/Sebright cross I call Sprites, now crossed back to the Spitzhauben rooster, so they’ll be 3/4 Spitz. I think I call them Spritzles. Can’t wait to see what they look like.

And I have an empty smaller coop which I hope to be for bantams—I have a local source for self-blue bantam Ameraucana eggs, and will have a broody hatch those as well.

 

[HenriettaPizzaNolan]

1 Buff Orpington, 1 Buckeye, 1 Easter Egger, and in all reality, probably one additional random chick from the chick bin at Meyer when I go for pickup lol.

 

[sammi_lynn12]

I only added four more lol

Two speckled sussex and two buff orpingtons. I have been searching everywhere for speckled sussex and I am so excited I finally found them. I have two of each breed and I am ocd so the buff's were an impulse buy since the minimum were 4 chicks but I am excited for them too. Now fingers crossed they are all pullets like they are suppose to be! Lol

 

[CoopBoots]

I'm working with a questionable fertility rooster, so starting with 8 in a neighbor's incubator (Niederrheiner x Buff Orpington) and if my broody hen sticks, possibly another 8 of the same or some hatching eggs from another local. I'm not worried about the excess, pullets will go easily if I somehow magically get too many and my sister can help me process any sub-standard cockerels. Working on more coop space now

 

[Bertram]

We're doing a 4-H mystery chick project so we'll be getting a bunch of surprises.
I'm also incubating some of my mille fleur d'uccle eggs.

 

[winterwolf4]

We're doing a 4-H mystery chick project so we'll be getting a bunch of surprises.
I'm also incubating some of my mille fleur d'uccle eggs.

Did you order chicks or are you incubating them?

 

[micstrachan]

Oh how egg-citing ! Can’t wait to see them! So you expect to get them in a few weeks? I won’t say a word

Thanks, Kelly! Yes, that is the hope. I’ll for sure post on Bob’s thread if and when it happens.