Category Archives: Chickens

Happy Easter

I have always thought that Easter was the best holiday on the calendar and this one was especially special. I was doing my morning chicken duties when I noticed that my broody hen was not alone in her cubicle. She had two little chicklets under her.

I spent the day moving them to the floor of the coop and getting them situated with food and water and shelter from the rest of the chickens. About half way through that adventure I realized that today is the chickens’ 7 month birthday so that was pretty special as well.

As far as breeds go – I’m leaning toward the darker one being a silver-laced Wyandotte and the lighter one being an olive egger. I’ll have to see how they grow up but the lighter one came out of a blue egg so depending on the roo involved, it has a chance of being an olive egger. Since I only have two roos, it would be a 50/50 chance.


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Chickens!

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These are my surviving black-laced silver Wyandotte at 6 weeks. I originally had three but one was killed by a hawk and we have since fixed the small hole in the netting that the hawk used to access the chicken yard so hopefully there will be no future issues. Right from the start I called them my penguins so I have named them Emperor and Adélie as those are both penguin species and fitting names for what appear to be a roo and pullet.

The rest of my flock is represented in the pictures. I think at six weeks (Twoy is eight weeks now) that I have exactly two roosters – Emperor and General Tzo (who is an Easter Egger) – which means 15 girls! I have three BCM (Black Copper Marans) so one is pictured twice – Pretty sure Twoy is a girl and the little one, still unnamed, is a girl, the middle-sized one is almost the size of Twoy so it might be a rooster but I’m leaning toward not-a-boy.

Friendliest breed goes to Plymouth Rock – I have a head-sitter in that group that always feels a need to be on my head or shoulder. I’m trying to keep her on the shoulder because she’s already heavy enough to be a pain when she tries to get firm seating on the head. All of the rest of the chickens are mostly friendly – taking turns to get in close when I sit in the coop with them but the Plymouth Rocks are always the closest. The Columbian Wyandotte take a good second though.