I don't think I mentioned which breed of chickens I chose, so here goes:
2 Barred Rocks (brown eggs)
3 Ameraucanas (green/blue eggs)
2 Silver Laced Wyandottes (brown eggs)
2 Rhode Island Reds (brown eggs)
2 Danish Brown Leghorns (large white eggs)
2 Speckled Sussex (brown Eggs)
They are very entertaining and so cute. Here are some pics I took on Sunday.
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I didn't get any input into the chicks we got last year; my husband bought them for our son for Easter, supposedly. But three of the four are Rhode Island Reds - HIS favorite variety. One was an Easter Egger, selected for me. The other three pullets (same age) we picked up later last summer from two different places. I would love to have more variety, as in no two alike! Speckled Sussex and Barred Rocks are so pretty; I'd take one of each. I only recently learned that leghorns come in brown; we had the standard white ones when we lived in Hereford, TX.
You commented on coveting blue eggs. A Shetland shepherd friend of mine in AZ who used to raise and show chickens said that only true Ameraucanas lay blue eggs, and most that are sold as Ameraucanas are really the hybrid Easter Eggers unless you go to a specialized breeder. One of our EEs lays pink eggs (she's a lovely gray and gold hen); the other, as you know, lays green eggs. I got to see a whole rainbow of colorful EEs at my husband's uncle's place in MO last summer; check out three colors in this post from that visit: http://boulderneigh.blogspot.com/2008/09/creature-comforts.html
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