two weeks

The babies are two weeks old now.

Danish Brown Leghorns


Marans


Chanteclers


Salmon Faverolles

look at all the babies

This is who we ordered our chicks from . . .

5 toes!

5 toes!
Originally uploaded by SewCrafty

Here is a picture of the foot of one of the Salmon Faverolles. They are one of just a couple of breeds that have five toes, a result of Dorkings being used to develop the breed.

Faverolles are listed as critical on the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy's Conservation Priority List, if I had more land I would be tempted to keep a breeding flock, very tempted.

the post office called

. . . and we went and picked up the chicks and ducklings.

The chicks are Partridge Chanteclers, Brown Leghorns, Cuckoo Marans and Salmon Faverolles.

The ducklings are Khaki Campbells, I ordered four females and one male but we lost one in shipping so we'll have to wait to see if we still have a male or not.

baby pictures

Rhode Island Reds



Americauna/Ameraucana/Easter Eggers

but I don't want to go to bed

it begins again

Today we went for a ride to the local feed store, they were supposed to get chicks in on Friday and we wanted to pick up a couple of the more common breeds I didn't order from the hatchery. They were completely sold out. The kids were very disappointed so we headed off to another not as local feed store. Jackpot! They were out of Buff Orpingtons, but we were able to get two Rhode Island Reds (Ruby and Rosy) and four Ameraucanas, also called Easter Eggers. We opted not to get any Australorps, hubby calls them devil chickens because they are coal black with black eyes and the ones we had in the past were a bit, umm, evil.

The kids took turns holding the box on the way home and were very good about leaving the chicks in the box until we arrived home.