Expanding our Nest (again)

Just yesterday morning, I was cursing the hens for digging up my freshly planted garden and eating the oregano. Those better be some deliciously flavored eggs coming my way! 

Just hours later, I went momentarily crazy and bought 4 chicks. 2 Americaunas and 2 barred rocks. 

They are brooding under a heat lamp in a cardboard box... in my dining room, ironically. 

Today,  I was hoping for marans, but no one has any in stock. I put my name on a waiting list for one, and brought home 2 more Americaunas instead. 

I've never seen a yellow Americauna pullet before and couldn't resist. The owner at Webb's says she'll be solid white (and lay the traditional Americauna blue eggs). I fell in love with her and named her Maude. 

They blended right in with their sisters in the brooding box and the children are working on names. So far, we have  Maude, Frances, Kitty, Grace, Bergita and Steve. 

Fingers crossed they all survive and that they are all, indeed, hens like the suppliers promised they are!