Chicken News

We now have 21 chickens, but the official count is 17. The rest have homes to go to. This nice looking Lachenvelder (anove) came with our first batch of chickens. He had a great, loud crow. A real Cock-a-doodle-doooo-uh. He was unfortunately the first one to go. We gave him to Dan's grandma Marie, coming through on our gift certificate we gave her at Christmas.

Right now I have a young rooster in front. He was recovering from being picked by the young flock. With him is Red, who came up lame, and two Americana layers (a gold and a gray) to see what color their eggs are. Both blue.
We have an original flock of Red, Wiley, a goldie and a regular americana, a buff, and Ophelia, the female lachenvelder. These were born last spring. We have a second batch of layers (mostly americanas) born in summer (July). The young flock was born Nov. 4. We are thinking about the timing and selection of our next batch of chicks. Here's a shot of Hairy, the another rooster we fond of.

Here are some shots of the younger flock, some who have gone to other homes already. We ordered some naked neck chickens, turkens, or Transylvanian naked necks. We kept two of those.
We have not entirely settled on a name for the egg endeavor. And, rats are tunneling into the coop.