Week twelve update: one of the boys tried to crow yesterday. I don't know which one but it was freakin' adorable. A kind of short "Awka awka awk!" They're all so pretty and I wish I could keep them, but my neighbors wouldn't appreciate five roosters lol.
The boys!
Chicken Nugget and his bro are the friendliest. He's also my daughter's fav so he's the one staying.
Kan was renamed by my husband since he is a boy bird. Newly re-chistened Combusken.
Stormy is the biggest but still a momma's boy. His adult plumage is coming in dark gray, no red on this boy at all.
Solay is still the smallest. His tail feathers are a bit ratty because he sleeps with his butt pressed up against the wall for some reason, but he's still got the best plumage over all, I think. A Fancy Boy!
Ranger.... still very flighty. This was the closest I could get and even then he was watching me very carefully. Not a great rooster or pet really.
The girls!
Red looks so much like a buff brahma mix??? She's even got a pea comb and feathered legs, but the only Brahma the lady had was a light bantam rooster, and she definitely doesn't have any bantam genes!! Mom was a buff orp, so I'm hoping she gives me big, plentiful eggs.
Darkness came out of a dark brown egg from a marans of some kind.
Skeletor is also a kind of flighty girl, but she's the only pullet from one of my blue eggs (the other three that hatched were Stormy, Combusken, and Nug). I love easter eggers too much to give her up but I might switch her for a different chicken later on.
And finally momma Blue, who, ironically, lays green eggs. She's the reason I've fallen in love with EEs; this year she started laying again in March, and has laid daily save for when she was broody. Came back into production hardly 4 weeks post hatching, and as of this posting is STILL LAYING, even though the sun isn't up before 7 am and is gone by 4 pm. I'm hoping next year if she goes broody again, she'll have her own fertile eggs to set so I can keep her great laying power going in future generations.
Enjoy this video from this morning of them foraging in the backyard.
