Our home sits on less than 0.25 acre lot.
The chickens are great pets without being loud or smelly to our neighbors.
She tends to hang out inside a lot and is less outgoing.
she is easy-going and so striking when standing next to our other chickens!
Easter Eggers can lay blue, green, pink, or less commonly light brown eggs.
Note: We found they lay about a week or so later than the rest of our flock.
Easter Eggers tend to be on the smaller size of chickens.
That is great for saving on space, but it also means they dont make a great meat bird.
This is Belle, Buff Orphington
Belle is a Buff Orpington.
We named her Belle because her light orange color looked like Belle from Beauty and the Beasts dress.
She likes to be outside and is always the first one down and last one up.
Even when she is the only chicken outside thats okay with her.
She is a nice, quiet docile chicken great with kids.
Buff Orpingtons are all the same color.
She lays roundish large light brown eggs with a slightly pink hue.
This breed can go broody (or want to hatch eggs) but we have not experienced that yet.
She is a docile bird that is always eager to see what scraps weve brought her.
She is in the upper part of our flocks pecking order.
She lays large light brown eggs.
Healthy, happy chickens who get plenty of exercise lay healthy eggs!
In our flock she is in the middle of the pecking order.
She is very social and always comes right up to see me.
See more about Easter Eggers above under Snow White.Notice the blue feet!
she is towards the middle of our backyard pecking order.
She is very sweet and friendly.
Just beautiful to watch.
This is Black Beauty, Black Australorp
Black Beauty is a Black Australorp.
Her all black body is beautiful and very striking with her bright red comb and wattle.
Her feathers have a slightly green tint when you look at her in the sunlight.
She is incredibly sweet and friendly.
Yet another great dual purpose breed.
Can you tell we liked those?
you could depend on them for 300+ eggs a year.
Update:Sometimes chickens peck at one another because they are looking for food.
Unfortunately, Black Beauty got pecked until she had blood.
Chickens love going after red things and started to be attracted to that.
Luckily, as we check our our chickens frequently and noticed she was bleeding before it became an issue.
In butchering her we found she had no eggs inside.
So although she was a sweet chicken, she was eating and not laying us any eggs.
So it turned out in the end to cull her.
They are both towards the middle of the pecking order.
We were never sure exactly what she was until she feathered out.
But now looking back, she did always have the green Easter Egger feet!
She is at the top of our pecking order and is very sweet and friendly.
She is one of the first to come greet me at the door when i have scraps to offer.
She is also the first chicken to figure out the right place to lay her eggs!
Barred Plymouth Rocks are a wonderful dual breed bird.
They get very nice and big so they would dress nicely.
They alsolay large brown eggs dependably.
If I had to pick one reliable layer it would be a Barred Plymouth Rock!
This Easter Egger chick was a favorite of mine from the start.
She was friendly, smart, and alert.
At about 6 weeks I started to wonder if maybe she was a actually a Rooster.
Her comb was darkening and was a little larger than the others.
But then again, sometimes that is the case.
