OH WOW guess what I did??

OH MY GOSH!  I  had this LONG entry and tons of pics here and I was on my last darn picture and went over a little to far in the entry and poof! GONE!  The whole entry!  Well...lets start again!  I never learn!  I should copy and paste the darn thing when adding pictures... I KNOW I do that when adding pictures!  GRRRRRRRRRR

Ok so...I ordered 12 more chicks!  YES I DID!  Am I crazy!?  Maybe but I don't think so.  Here is what happened...

Remember I ordered 25 chicks (only got 24) a few weeks ago and today they are 2 weeks old plus three days. Plus 4 new babies who are a week old. 
Ok so our original chicken coop plan was for a 6x8 so that's why I had to get rid of 10 of my birds...we had only planned on keeping 15-18 chickens...SINCE I had gotten rid of the chicks we decide to go bigger 8x8 foot.  Now we can keep 21-23 chickens in there so I am down to 14 chicks and hatched out 4 more babies (only keeping hens and one male) and some of those may be leaving us too.  So lets figure I will have 16 total (if two of the babies are males)...now we need 7 more chicks to add to our flock to make it a full  house.  Hubby says we may as well fill it up and get extra eggs if we built it.  I agreed of course :D 
SO then I was on the search for eggs through BYC forum to put in the incubator.  Well by the time I found the three different breeds I wanted to add the price was going to be 60 - 65 bucks for 20 eggs which are not guarenteed and who knows how many hens I will get...maybe 1/4 of those that survive?  IF I have another 50% hatch out that brings my hen total down to 2-3 hens that I will keep.  Thats pretty expensive chicks!  SO then I called Ideal poultry where I got my last flock from and seen they were out of the breeds I wanted on the website.  I call them and told the lady what I wanted and she said ok we have them!  YEAH!  I then ordered 4 Australorp, 2 buff Orpingtons (these are sexed and guarenteed!) So I KNOW I will have 6 females for sure...then I ordered 6 straight run Mille Fleur D'uccle (which hopefully I will end up with one hen out of the 6) In any case...the total bill came to $42 something!  Now to me..I feel eggs should be cheaper?  I don't know, maybe I'm wrong. But I will get my baby chicks on FRIDAY already.  THAT was another plus...she said she could mail them on Wed already!  That means that they won't be much younger then the others in the brooder. 
What I thought I would do today is add some adult pictures of all the chickens I ordered so you can see what my flock WILL look like later on.  Now some colors may very but it's pretty close to what they will look like.  I also have video which I will add tomorrow maybe.  We let Izzy out to play with the dogs!  CUTE!  She would puff up her chest and jump at Max's ear!  LOL I missed that part but I got them checking her out. Cubby (my Pomeranian) was totally afraid of her! lol  She pecked his nose and cubby didn't like it. Here are the pics:

First we will start with my Salmon Faverolle (I have two girls) Feather footed and pretty shy yet...I'm working on them. These are my only breed that have five toes. (SO FAR) lol



Ameraucana's (I have two) these are the blue egg layers



Buff Brahma's (I have two) these are also feather footed and very sweet. 



Cochins (I have four) one is female and  not sure of the other three babies I hatched out last week from Kelly.  I know one does look like a blue cochin tho :) I hope!  Anyway...another feather footed breed (can you tell I like them :)) And these ones are so adorable! And sweet!  I pictured a blue pair below the black cochin





Serama (I have one baby named Kelly) She/he is the very first egg to hatch out last week out of the four that hatched.  I love her/him!  Very sweet and DOES hold her own even though she is tiny.  Serama's are the smallest chicken in the world. I had to have one! They weigh anywheres from 400 -750 grams! Yes they do lay eggs you can eat! I can't wait for the first one!  IF I have a hen that is. 



Silver Laced Wyandotte (I have one) She is also a sweet girl!



Then I have my Sex Links  I have 5 total...a Black, 2 Gold, and 2 Brown










Oh I forgot one...a barred rock (I have one) pretty sweet girl too



Now the new ones I ordered today:

6 Mille Fleur D'uccle (Straight Run) which means they are not sexed so I hope to get at least ONE hen out of the bunch.

Here is a Hen:



And a Roo Mille Fleur I may keep a roo because he's SOO cute! 




Buff Orpingtons (2 hens)



And last 4 Australorp's In the sun light these guys/girls will have a purple/green sheen and they are just so beautiful!  I'm so glad I called when I did!  Now I have some. 

Female:



Male:





That's it!  This is what my crew will look like when they finally reach maturity.  Colors of course may be a little different but not much I'm sure. 

This entry  has really been a pain in my butt today!  I lost it twice and then went to copy it and clicked PASTE instead!  UGH!  That was three times...now I'm going to quick save it before something happens again</imgstyle="font-family:>