Our 1st chickens were 6 RIR's, got them just for their eggs! was old they were younger than they actually were though, 2 died the first summer of heatstroke, after that we only had 4, the ones in this pic, so we got 2 leghorns & 2 Barred rocks, 1 of each of them got taken by a fox Then we bought 6 wyandottes gold laced ones, 1 ended up being a roo soooo of course then we had to get an incubator! & then it begins!