Since we got our first chickens in June 2011, we've added even more. The first of September we got 8 new chicks: 4 Araucanas, 2 Easter Eggers, 1 Welsummer and 1 Light Brown Leghorn. Then I decided I wanted to try hatching. I acquired eggs from a nearby breeder, shipped eggs from two different breeders on eBay and shipped eggs from a hatchery. Out of 23 eggs, we had 15 hatch around the first of October: 2 Light Brown Leghorns, 5 Welsummers, 1 Gold Laced Wyandotte, 1 Barred Rock, 2 Blue Rocks, 2 Rhode Island Red, 1 Rhode Island Red/New Hampshire Red, and 1 Easter Egger.
That gives us a total of 30 chickens. Once the most recent two flocks grow a little more and we figure out which ones are boys and which ones are girls, we will re-home most of the roosters - keeping only the ones we want to breed.
We will work on developing the following breeds: Araucana, Swedish Flower Hen, Chocolate Orpingtons. We may add Light Brown Leghorns, too, in order to have a full range of egg colors. Our emphasis, for at least the beginning, will be on Araucanas and Chocolate Orpingtons.
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