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Chicks 2005, courtesy of Butterfield Acres Farm. They turned out to be all roosters. We kept three (Larry, Curly & Mo).
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Mo.
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Mo & Curly (Curly is the all white one). Larry is in the pen in the background.
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2006 - our first chicken eggs.
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One of the red hens and Legolas the Guinea.
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An "Isa-Brown" hen. Isa-Brown is a kind of commercial hybrid brown egg layer. Quite calm and friendly.
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2006 - our first home-hatched chicks. The parents (Isa-A-Browns) are sex linked - the roosters are white and the hens red. The next generation does not carry on this link so both sexes can be either colour.
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Headless chicken?
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Headless chicken - another shot.
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More chicks.... (day-olds)
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I like the red & black one in the middle.
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About 3 weeks old.
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Curly, Mo and the girls.
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Larry.
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Pure-bred babies: an Exchequer Leghorn, Buff Orpington, Silver-Laced Wyandotte, and several Ameraucanas.
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Ameraucana - chocolate?
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Exchequer Leghorn: 'X' - she has become our friendliest hen.
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X
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Buffy the Buff Orpington.
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Blue Ameraucana
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Blue Ameraucana
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A Blue, 2 Reds and a Black Ameraucana
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A little older - about 2 weeks.
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Young Adolf
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3 weeks.
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Half-grown. The Wyandotte is a rooster.
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'X'
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Partridge Ameraucana rooster.
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Digit getting to know the chickens. Digit is about 9 weeks.
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The Reverend Goodnight - the partridge Ameraucana
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Rooster Cogburn - the Silver-Laced Wyandotte.
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Adolf
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Adolf - the Red Ameraucana rooster.
He got his name because of how he walks...
the best goose-step I've ever seen!
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clockwise from bottom left: orpington, exchequer, ameraucana, duck
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X
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Rooster Cogburn - the Silver-Laced Wyandotte.
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Chicken Little
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Buffy (the orpington) in the middle
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White Ameraucana hen
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The Reverend Goodnight - the partridge Ameraucana
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X
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X
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Two of the boys and the brown hen.
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Close-up of The Reverend Goodnight - the partridge Ameraucana
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X-baby - we called her 'Y'
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Adolf - the Red Ameraucana rooster.
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Adolf - the Red Ameraucana rooster. (and a hen)
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Close-up of an Ameraucana hen
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Rooster Cogburn - the Silver-Laced Wyandotte.
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Another X-baby - this one's a boy
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Adolf - the Red Ameraucana rooster.
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Assorted babies.
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Adolf - the Red Ameraucana rooster. The hen in the nest is Buffy.
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Rooster Cogburn - the Silver-Laced Wyandotte.
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Rooster Cogburn - the Silver-Laced Wyandotte. Notice he has lost the tips of his comb to frostbite.
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ameraucana-wyandotte cross
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This chicken has a crossed bill.
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cross-bill - It seems to be gatting along OK but is not quite a large as it's nest-mates.
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cross-bill
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note the cross bill on the grey bird
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