Meet the Ladies in the Line-Up

We chose 4 breeds - Orpington, Blue Ameraucana, Brahma, and Welsummer. The Orpingtons come in different colors, ours are the Buff variety. They lay brown eggs. The Ameraucanas are usually a blue-ish gray and lay pastel blue eggs. They will have a tuft of hair on their heads. Brahmas come in two different colors, we chose Light Brahmas which are white, gray, black splash. The last breed is Welsummer - these chickens have brown feathers and lay brown eggs with brown speckles.

Orpingtons

Daisy
Daisy is sweet. She likes to be held and will let you rub her tummy.

Forsythia
Forsythia is taller than Daisy. She likes to explore; she might be our first to fly!

Blue Ameraucanas

Petunia
Petunia is our smallest chick but jumps in with the big girls. She is a beautiful blue, gray. She will fall asleep in your hand.

Violet
Violet is very inquisitive. She has long legs and big feet. We think she'll be bigger than her counterpart.

Brahmas

Lily

Lily loves to eat! She is gentle and has a soft voice.

Verbena
Verbena is quiet until you pick her up, for a little bird she has a loud chirp!

Welsummers

Myrtle Mum (short for chrysanthemum)

Myrtle seems to be one of the leaders. Eager to explore new things and doesn't seem afraid of anything.

Marigold
Marigold is a gentle, sweet chick. She falls asleep in your hand and loves to be held.

Comments

Surprise!

Cock-a-Doodle-Doo I was turning over the straw under the chicken coop when I heard it. Thankfully Scott was out in the yard too so he knew just which one did it. This one. On New Year's Eve. 19 weeks old. What the $%#! Noooooo, is what I wanted to shout. This wasn't supposed to be happening at 19 weeks! From what we'd read, by 8-12 weeks you'd know if there was a rooster in the hen house. I emailed pictures of Lily to the hatchery, but with the holiday we didn't hear back right away. I also snapped a picture of Verbena. I say snapped because to be honest, I'd been having trouble telling the two of them apart for the past month. So while Scott was holding Lily, I went in search of Verbena. I didn't have to look far, she was right behind me, looking at Lily in a puzzled way. See Verbena's puzzled look? The fact that I couldn't tell them apart should have been a clue as to what happened on New Year's Day. Yep, anoth...

A Sad Day

Daisy Today was the last time we'd get 6 eggs in one day. Dear Daisy laid an egg today and then died sometime later. My heart is broken. When I let the girls out to free-range in our yard, only 4 came out. The Orphingtons, Forsythia and Daisy, did not. I checked the egg boxes, fully expecting to find Daisy in hers. She wasn't there. I checked the other boxes and found Forsythia. I looked on the roost bars, under the coop, and the attached run. No Daisy. Then I looked in the "tunnel", a breezeway connecting the bottom of the coop to the run. There was sweet Daisy, she could've been sleeping. Oh my girl. Daisy was a gentle giant, so sweet. She'd allow you to pick her up and sometimes she'd settle in your arms. She'd hop up on my chair and come visit in the yard. Daisy was inquisitive and yet scared of an umbrella. She got along with the other girls as well as people who came to meet the chickens. I've tried to think of what we di...

Synchronized Chickens

Do birds of a feather really flock together? While the chickens do pair off, go solo, and hang out with the flock, they often do seek their same kind. They seem to have a connection, a way of being in sync. Check out Marigold and Myrtle: Judges' scores? 10 10 10 Look at that? A perfect score!

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