We announced awhile back that we decided to add to our chicken flock, but there was a little wait.
Well, our day-old sweet new baby chicks just arrived!
There are few things sweeter than opening a box of brand new baby chicks! If you opened the box with us via video on our Facebook Page, (<– watch here), you know just what we mean! We’ve been so excited to get them, and we’re loving having them here.
Most of them still have their little egg-tooth too, and well, we’re all smitten with every one of them, already.
So today we are going to just briefly share with you their photos, names, breeds, and egg colors!
And also, what they will look like, for the most part, when they are all-grown-up!
A Word on Naming Them
You may know that for our first-chicks-ever (one-day-old chicks we received just like this, in 2014), the name-theme we were running with was towns we had personal ties to. When we allowed those chickens to have offspring with our rooster the following spring, we went with names of personally-relevant streets in those towns. (From the coinciding towns, of course.)
This time, with this order of sweet chicks, we have no consistent theme for names! So, don’t expect that. We’ve got a couple of spices, a couple of shrub/trees, and one more street! We roll unpredictably like that.
And God-willing there will be NO boys/roosters! We did order to have them vent-sexed, to be sure (ha haha!) we get females again. But ummm, well, last time (our first order), there were 2 out of 8 mis-sexed chicks. (We kept 1, even though we never intended to have a rooster. We did love our time with Weymouth.) And then when their offspring were born, 5 hatched, and 3 were boys/roosters! We kid you freakin’-not. So, we’ve had our share of finding homes for roosters.
We are counting on having ALL GIRLS with these chicks! Please, Lord.
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Alright, are you ready to meet the new chicks, one by one?
“Juniper”
Juniper is a Blue Easter Egger. Isn’t she just a doll?! She is expected to lay blue or green eggs. We can’t wait to see her eggs! Because whatever color the first egg is, is what that Easter Egger will always lay. I’m sure we’ll show the first egg on our Facebook Page and or our InstaGram. So yeah, follow us theres. (Typo on purpose.)
Juniper will grow to look much like this, as the most gorgeous dark blue-gray.
She resembles a Blue Ameraucana, but she is not one.
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“Cayenne”
Cayenne is a Black Copper Maran, and she will lay deep rich chocolate-brown eggs. We’re excited about this egg color, too!
She’s got a bit fuzzy on her legs and feet as a chick, and I guess that will stay too, so that’s also new among our chickens.
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Although Cayenne will be mostly black as an adult, she will have some reddish color around her neck.
A ‘Cayenne’ color!
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“Canela”
Pronounced /ka.ˈnɛ.la/, Canela is named after the Mexican cinnamon of the same name.
She too is an Easter Egger, and will most likely also lay blue or green eggs. We will see!
Canela will supposedly grow to look so different, than she does as a chick. This Easter Egger’s plumage may end up being mostly white/light, mostly dark, or any shade or mix in between. As long as she lays beautifully colored eggs, we really don’t care! It looks like she’ll be an especially different looking chicken in body-build, than our more traditional chickens.
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“Schoosett II”
A bit of a back-story, with this one: Schoosett II is a Black Australorp, and a replacement for one of the offspring chicks, “Schoosett” that one spring, who turned out to be a boy/ rooster, from our then rooster Welsummer “Weymouth” (now deceased) and our first Black Australorp, “Pembroke”, (also now deceased, who was our first chicken-loss to a predator.) We could not have another rooster, so we sadly had to re-home the original Schoosett right away.
The name Schoosett comes from the street Michael and his family grew up on, in the town of Pembroke. (Because Schoosett was Pembroke’s baby.)
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“Lilac”
Lastly, we have Lilac, who is a Lavender Orpington!
Isn’t she another doll?
She will remain very light colored, with a slight blue/purple tone to her plumage.
Very unique.
- Note: Our baby chicks were ordered from My Pet Chicken, and I do thank them for letting me borrow the adult photos, to show you what our chicks will look like when they are grown up. We’ve been really happy with them, aside from the first mis-sexing, which I guess cannot be guaranteed. (Have I mentioned that we are counting on all 5 of these being girls, this round? We totally are.)
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It’ll be 4-5 weeks before the chicks have some play dates with the rest of the flock, and then join the rest for good under the cover of the dead of night. When the older chickens wake up the next morning, their flock will have grown from 7 to a dozen, and the monkey-wrench will have officially been thrown into the pecking order. None-the-less, every one of them have come to the right place for a sweet place to grow up and live, with lots of love, care and attention. They’ve got it pretty good, with their mansion-coop, a beautiful run, and a life of love, if we do say so ourselves.
We’re so glad you came over quick, to see and meet our sweet baby chicks. Because as you know, they grow super fast! Their new feathers are already busting out, and as any of you who have had chickens knows, there is a real awkward/unattractive stage between chick-hood, and adulthood. We’re just being real. That’s ok though, we’ve all been there, and we’ll love them anyway.
Chicken-keeping is awesome.
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