Chicks!

Oh? Pics pics!! What kind?

I'll get some pics tomorrow. They are all mix bred with white leghorn,some grey striped kind with fluffy cheeks, some type of bantam and some kind that are orange.
The little babies are 2 or 3 yellow,one orange and the rest are tan striped. So we will end up with some white, an orange and maby some brown or grey striped.

Fluffy cheeks are auracanas or americanas....unless you went for some exotic breed! They can be either food or layers I think? Leghorns are food right? Partridge (color) are stripey looking but laced are more stripey...bantam are beautiful but are game chickens? Sounds like quite the mix! Can't wait to see!

Originally we had 4 'easter' chicks about 7 or 8 years ago, and I know they were all purebreds, but from there it was mixed. Then we got some bantams a few years later and now we have an adorable silky rooster. Maby I can get a few pics and you can maby tell what breeds they are?
We use all our hens for eggs too.
Also since they are all mixbred now, its really funny to see a little tiny white bantam size rooster with a huge leghorn type comb.
Heres a few pictures
The one with the chicks is one of our original hens Stripes, the other picture is just 2 of our mixed hens now.

I love having chickens around but seem to have the most terrible time keeping them. We have lots of critters around and 'coons and 'possum will catch them if they get a chance. Not to mention hawks and owls. My dad gave me two batches of young ones and a coon broke into the cage and got every one of them. Last spring I bought 10 at atwoods. Got them all grown and just stating to lay and something caught all of them. The funny thing is I've still got 3 chickens from the original batch my Dad gave me (out of 17) and they are still around. I've let my hens raise a few but the roosters are the only ones that seem to make it. I now have 2 young roosters that I'm hoping will take up with some of the younger hens as they grow up and protect them and I now have a young dog that caught and killed a 'possum the other night and he doesn't both the chickens. So I'm hopeful this spring the 5 my hens hatched out will make it.

We used to have a really bad coon problem, so we got a pyreneese.

Heres a picture of the babies. My mom wants to keep them in the cage for a few more days for fear of our newest dog since she has never seen baby chicks before. A good hen flogging should fix any desire she has to eat them, but we want to make sure shes on a leash when she sees them.

Also a picture of baby ducks someone gave us! The females are starting to quack.

sooooooo cute! I want some of each!

Oh they are so cute!!! They don't appear to have tails? Does mama lay green or blue eggs? I'm still thinking Aura or Americana.

I've never seen any of our newborns with tails. That particular hen I'm not sure what color eggs she lays; I want to say small white ones. We do have a few that lay blue and green tinted eggs as well as just white.

It stopped raining enough for me to catch all the babies and take them out of the cage.
First day in the real world!