#barnyard mix

[ladystephaniesduck]

Ducklings hatched!!! 🐥 🐣 They're so perpetually cute and soft, I'm in love! 😍

[thomas--bombadil]

With the cold coming so quickly, everything, even backyard chickens, start looking very poofy, as they try to stay warm.

[ainawgsd]

I have hatching eggs!

Possible breeds include Rhose Island Red, ISA Browns, Easter Egger, Marans, Wyandotte, Australorp, Orpington, Sussex, Plymouth Rock, Silkies, and Brahma

[gayspaekles]

My son, Paul 😍🥰🐓💜☀️🌲

[teenytinydinosaurfarm]

STERN HEN by ©teenytinydinosaurfarm

[birbschickens]

Here's my suprise! Venus hatched her chicks! Rn they don't have names, but I'm crying to stick to my 'gods' theme. The chick in the first photo might be named Loki since they're a little shit, not sure about the silkie chick though. Currently, they're 10 days old. This photo was taken when they were 2 days old.

[pasture-raised]

What the F is an Araucana

Via Wikipedia...

“There are both full-sized and bantam Araucanas.[18] They may be either normally tailed or rumpless. The Araucana has a pea comb and lays approximately 250 blue or green eggs per year.[12]

In Australia, only the tailed Araucana is recognised in the Australian Poultry Standards;[19] both tailed and rumpless may be exhibited.[11]

The British standard accepts both tailed and rumpless;[18] they may be treated as separate breeds.[20][21] The British type of Araucana has a beard and muffs which conceal the earlobes.

In North America, Araucanas have long ear-tufts and are rumpless. As both ear-tufts and rumplessness are caused by autosomal dominant lethal alleles, not all of the birds can display these traits.[22]

A total of twenty plumage varieties are listed for the Araucana by the Entente Européenne d’Aviculture et de Cuniculture.[23] Of these, five are recognised by the American Poultry Association for large fowl: black, black breasted red, silver duckwing, golden duckwing, and white; for bantams, buff is added to these.[3] The Australian Poultry Standard recognises black, cuckoo, lavender, splash, white and any colour which is standard in Old English Game.[19] The Poultry Club of Great Britain recognises twelve colours: black, black-red, blue, blue-red, crele, cuckoo, golden duckwing, lavender, pile, silver duckwing, spangled, and white.[2]:43–44″

TLDR; Let’s take a wide variety of chickens and call them all the same thing.

[quickwitter]

BARNYARD CHICKS

I picked up a bunch of barnyard chicks from a guy out in the desert. They were $1.50 each and straight run (hens and roos). Already I’m seeing roosters in the group (see top photo). The farm was the cleanest I’ve been to, and the farmer was super nice guy. I saw that he has a Buff Cochin, and a Light Brahma Rooster and he had a rooster for each of the hen breeds. His hens are Easter Eggers, Faverolles, Speckled Sussex, Penciled Rocks, Gold Laced and Red-laced Blue Wyandottes, and though I didn’t see a rooster with a head crest, many of the chicks have both feathered feet and consistent small head crest. I thought initially it might be a Polish, but the head isn’t right (Polish chicks have an extra bump on their head to support the feathers and big nostrils) and the feathered feet don’t make sense - Now, I’m thinking Silkie, and it makes sense. They have gentle faces.