Backyard Beginnings

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Photos of our flock in the last 2 weeks! The chickens aren't normally on concrete; but since I gave them diced green pepper I put their snack there for easier findings.

In the full flock photo: you'll notice our fully grown Flock Rooster. As previously mentioned he was severely frostbite during our abnornal deep freeze early 2021. He went into the rafters of a shed with some escapee hens (who he kept warm) but it resulted in a loss of half a comb and multiple ends of toes. He does not appear to be in pain, and has successfully bred each adult hen since then. Additionally you'll notice his yellow coloring; this is sun bleaching rather than color leakage. When he hatched and when he has a molt, his feathers come back a vibrant lavender gray just like the young rooster's are right now.

At present we have:
2 Adult White Phoenix Hens
1 Rhode Island Red Hen
1 Adult Lavender Orpington Rooster
1 Lav Orp Cockerel
1 Adult Lav Orp Hen
2 Started Lav Orp Pullets
3 Black Colored Lav Orp/Phoenix Chicks (1 cockerel, 2 pullets, probably)
3 Black Colored Lav Orp/Rhode Island Chicks (2 cockerel, 1 pullet, probably)
7 Lavender Orpington Chicks (1-2 cockerel, 5-6 pullets, probably)

Most of the cockerels will need rehomed. Please PM the page if you are interested in taking a cockerel or pullet at a later date, potentially for a rehoming cost, color/breed dependent. We will decide later on to whether tk rehome our Older or Younger Lavender Orp Roos.

Just a general update: we have decided to transition away from keeping the rabbits until the kids are a bit older and we have more space/time to dedicate. We also had an illness knock out our breeding females, and it is still unclear what from due to no outward signs. It was quite upsetting, but cemented our decision to wait on restarting this venture. Accordingly, most of our rabbit stock is now gone and the rest will likely be transitioned out over time.

We may have some equipment sanitized and available for anyone interested at a future date.

We will also be expecting kiddo #2 around June! So time will be at a premium and waiting another year or so to expand again will be ideal.

However, we are still keeping our chickens and had some setbacks this summer with a local hawk. At present we still have our White Phoenix ladies; our apparently ever resilient Rhode Island Red: Poppy (she got attacked by a hawk and managed to recooperate); and a Lavender Orpington Hen and Roo.

We may add another Lavender hen sometime this year. I've considered trading our Lovely Phoenix Ladies, but one of them is our broody gal who hatched our Lavender eggs last year.

All told this was an eventful first year and had many teachable and joyful moments. ❤❤❤

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🐇🐇🐇Hey everyone! All 8 bunnies from Batch #1 are ready for rehoming today!!! The rest are available Saturday!! I will finally get their updated pictures posted throughout the day!🐇🐇🐇 Please PM the page!