Chicken and Ducks Oh my( Picture Heavy :)

Houdini sun bathing. The first time I caught one doing this my heart stopped. Over by the window Patty below was stretched out on "her"side eyes closed. I just knew "she"was dead. So I walked over and poked her and she jumped up and ran! Never knew they sunbathed, learn something new each day!

Nugget with an attitude. This one has a complex and is always challenging everyone.

Patty one of our fathered feet little ones.

Growing fast. Peep, BR, and Bumblebee(a.k.a. Bee)

She loves these guys as you can see and is really great with them. We have sad news about Sonny here on the right our chicken on steroids. He is actually a Cornish Cross(between a Cornish Game Hen and Partridge Rock). (The bin we picked him out of said Buff Orpington. )And therefore is a meat bird. They are bred with only food on their mind and are usually slaughtered between 6 and 8 weeks of age. They as pets are not expected to live long due to growing so fast they have leg and heart problems. I am really upset that the feed store had these and most were being sold as pets. I won't be buying from them again, even when they were able to tell us the breed of birds we were buying were wrong! We are limiting Sonnys' food hoping to slow his growth and keep him healthy as long as we can. Thanks to folks at
http://www.backyardchickens.com/
for giving us lots of info and helping us to identify some of these guys! PS seems Sonny is also a rooster as he has knots on the insides of his legs for spurs. Thanks mom for that info.!

Mother Hen Tayler...

Luey and Duey are not easily separated and each will holler in protest when this happens. Sorry guys you two are to big to tote at the same time. They are now almost completely white and have at least half of their big guy feathers in. It won't be long until they can go to the pond.

These are 2 of our 4 new additions. These girls are Barred Rock.

Second set. Daddy was only supposed to bring home 2 more, but decided on pairs and an even dozen. These girls are call Silver Laced Wyandotte. He picked them up from a feed store in Greenwood. They seem to have a much better set up and are able to tell you what you are buying and the sex. We wanted to even our odds and make sure we had at least a few females for egg laying. Joshua's' fav. is the smallest closest to his stomach. He calls her sleepy guy, this is the only one he likes to hold. The other 3 are still nameless feel free to help us out. :)

Butterfly on left and Houdini on right. Big size difference, we are thinking that Houdini is either a Bantam(small breed) or possibly a Jersey Giant (one of if not the largest breed of chickens). "She" as you can see is very small compared to others, even the other bantams. The Jersey Giant matures at a very slow rate, and "she" seems to have barely grown at all. Only time will tell.