What do you have in your flock?

[GitaBooks]

I love having a "rainbow" flock. Barred Rock, Partridge Rock, White Giant, Black Giant, Silkie, Sebright, OEGB, Leghorn, Easter Egger, mix-breeds, and so many more. I would take a while to name them all. : )

 

[PeepersMama]

I saw your pic of your brahmas (NICE pic btw) in the integrating flock thread and fell in LOVE . Oh dear. And lap chickens, that makes it worse.

Maybe we need a thread about what chickens would you LIKE to have! lol. Somebody stop me.

Thanks! those three were BEST friends. I almost never saw one of them alone. Now Peaches is the only one left. Cooties died of EYP, and we had to cull Platypus in the Evil Marek's outbreak. Peachy hangs out with the Cochin banty now, since they were raised under the same broody.

I always seem to turn very serious threads into chatting threads.....
I think there is one of those somewhere.... I might have seen a thread for that very purpose awhile back.

 

[featherhead007]

I know some people only raise one breed of chickens and some people have a rainbow flock. Just wondering what everyone has.

We have

Barred rocks
Buff rocks
White leghorns
Blue andalusions
Ameracaunas
Brahmas

you dittod my flock but i have 2 buff orpingtons from England as well.... good for you!

 

[Sourdough Jane]

We are new to the Chicken world. On the advice of friends and family, we have 1 Barred Rock, 1 Rhode Island Red, 1 Black Australorp, and 1 Buff Banty. Cute little things, all are 4 weeks old and we love them!

 

[Treerooted]

My very first flock, still chicks, and I have:

Australorp (Black)
Brahma (Buff)
Barnevelder
Orpington (Buff)
Sussex (Speckled)
Wyandotte (Golden Laced)

Their feathers are coming in and looking beautiful!

 

[stacyrn]

I know some people only raise one breed of chickens and some people have a rainbow flock. Just wondering what everyone has.

We have

Barred rocks
Buff rocks
White leghorns
Blue andalusions
Ameracaunas
Brahmas

 

[stacyrn]

Well right now I have one adult Rhode Island Red as the sole survivor of a weasel attack and 19 5 week old chicks; 9 silver laced wyandettes and 10 rhode island reds. I am getting two 2 week old ducklings from my neighbor....can i keep them in the same pen/coop as the chicks or do they need a separate pen to mature in? We plan on allowing them all to free range and would love tips on encouraging "flockness".

 

[catsnchickslady]

2 Rhode Island Red hens
2 buff Cochin bantams ( 1 roo and 1 hen)
2 barred rock hens
1 Americauna hen
1 Black Copper Marans hen
2 Splash olive egger's (that is how they were listed) 1 roo (my avatar) and 1 hen
1 Black Polish hen had 2 roos but hey did not like me at all so they were re-homed
1 bantam hen ( I don't know her breed)
3 Roosters that I think are American Game
4 Hens that I don't know what breed they are
1 handicapped EE that was sold to me as an oliver egger but her eggs are blue eggs
14 chicks that hatched around Easter
Oh my gosh! I didn't know I had THAT many and now the bantam cochin hen went broody and is sitting on 6 eggs. I better stop!

 

[adrikeen]

Rainbow Bantam Flock here...adults are hens
1 Mottled Cochin (had two but lost my first one 2 years ago)
3 D'Uccles
3 EE's
2 Brahmas
1 Frizzle (lost her sister in the winter)
4 Silkes (2 splash, one blue, one black)
1 Delaware Blue Hen (yep...the real deal) - unfortunately I lost her sister in the early Spring to something respiratory - everyone got treated after that loss
I recently added 4 Sebright chicks but two have turned out to roosters and are awaiting rehoming to someone who will adore them
And the moment I knew I lost my mind....16 white Silkie chicks. I think I have half hens and half roosters so far....One group is 9 weeks and the other is 6 so still a bit too early to tell....although I have my suspicions. The boys will be up for adoption once I figure out who's who.

 

[needlessjunk]

I'm down to just a black australorp, gold sex link and then my ducks. 2 runners a Cayuga and a white layer.