The Flock

Easter Egger lineage (cross TBD)

“Finished hatching on her own overnight after a light assist”

Charcoal-grey bird covered in soft white spangles, with a paler white-flecked head, a bare red face and a very small comb; looks remarkably like Ingebird. Plumage alone cannot tell her apart; her leg band does. Yellow legs.

The LAST HATCH of the 2026 incubator season.

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Golden Laced Wyandotte cross (Henrietta line)

“Settled with siblings in the brooder”

Soft blue-grey body with darker grey lacing on each feather, the smoothest and palest grey of the grey-and-barred group, not barred. Head and neck white with bold black spots. Small comb, red face, yellow legs.

June Henrietta-line chick.

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Easter Egger lineage (cross TBD)

“Slow to clear the shell; rested between pushes”

A solid slate-grey folded wing panel lying flat against a gold body splashed all over with bold irregular black leopard blotches — the plain dark wing against the spotted gold is readable right across a pen. Tail solid black. Face and throat dusky grey-brown bare skin with a small cream patch behind the eye, comb a low pink-red ridge. ⚠️ The grey-wing-over-gold look is shared with Birddor — Birddor has a large bright RED face and a very pale yellow-gold eye, Horstabird's face is dull grey-brown. (Plumage from 21-Jul-2026, photographed shortly before banding — not yet confirmed against yellow #2.)

Boss-corrected 2026-06-07: a pullet, sired by LBRJ (the red rooster lost in the April predator wave) — identified by the rust/red coming in on her face and throat, which supersedes the earlier Whitey Red Legs paternity window.

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Golden Laced Wyandotte cross (Henrietta line)

“Settled with siblings in the brooder”

Rooster: crisp black-and-white barring over the whole bird, head included, with a large bright-red single comb flopping to one side and full red wattles. Colored like the purchased Barred Rock roosters, so plumage alone cannot tell him apart; his leg band does. Yellow legs.

June Henrietta-line chick, named in honor of his mother Henrietta.

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Easter Egger lineage (cross TBD)

“Calm; presumed male per Boss's early call”

Mostly white bird with heavy dark grey-brown streaking and speckling across the breast and neck, the only predominantly white bird of the June hatch. Tail white barred with black. Red single comb and small wattles, orange eye, yellow beak and legs.

First chick of the June clutch (new incubator, eggs set ~12 May; sire window Whitey Red Legs).

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Easter Egger lineage (cross TBD)

“Came out of the shell upside-down; healthy”

Barred black-and-white hen with a paler white-speckled head and a bare red face; looks remarkably like Adelbird and is colored like the purchased Barred Rocks. Plumage alone cannot tell her apart; her leg band does. Yellow legs.

Second chick of the June clutch.

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Easter Egger lineage (cross TBD)

“Aggressive out the gate — relocated solo from incubator at 21:22 EDT for pecking batchmates and knocking eggs around”

Deep rust-red to mahogany all over, head, neck and body one even colour, with a glossy black tail and a slate-blue bar showing on the folded wing. Red single comb and wattles, yellow legs.

First of three chicks from the April-25 clutch.

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Wyandotte × RIR cross

“Was vocalizing distress at 21:23 EDT while Birdthazar was harassing; settled once Birdthazar moved to brooder”

Glossy jet-black head and neck above a slate blue-grey body — the black head is his mark, and no other grey-bodied bird in the flock has one. Chestnut-rust patches on the wing shoulder and down the front of the neck break up the grey. Broad bare red face, large upright red comb and long wattles, gold iris, heavy yellow-orange legs. He is one of the larger and more mature-looking of the young birds.

First chick of the Henrietta line.

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Easter Egger lineage (cross TBD)

“Pip-to-free in ~40 min — vigorous out the shell. 'Big ol' orange dinosaur' per Boss.”

Rich rust-brown all over including the head, with a very small comb and a bare pink-red face. Unlike the similar rust-red Birdthazar, no full red comb and no black tail. Feathers edged slightly darker for a fine scaled look; yellow legs.

Third chick of the April-25 clutch.

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TBD

“TBD”

Breeds resolving as they feather out: at least 2 Buff Rangers (buff/orange, heavy-bodied, fast growers) + a Barred Rock; remainder TBD

Six additional Tractor Supply chicks brought home approximately one week after the 25-April haul; now grown out in Birdcatraz with the April-25 cohort.

Buff Ranger

“Voracious forager — one of the two 'monstrous little eating machines'”

Buff/golden plumage, heavy-bodied; well-developed red comb and wattles. Right-hand bird in IMG_5948.

Boss-named 2026-06-18 (#meet-the-lobsters).

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Buff Ranger

“Voracious forager — one of the two 'monstrous little eating machines'”

Buff/golden plumage; younger-looking than Chonkers — less comb/wattle development, some downy feathering still on the underside. Left-hand bird in IMG_5948.

Boss-named 2026-06-18 (#meet-the-lobsters).

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Easter Egger × RIR cross

“Alert, growing fast”

A sharply bounded rust-and-black streaked cape over the head, neck and shoulders that stops dead where the body begins — a copper collar on a solid black bird, visible from across the yard. Body black to near-black with a faint green-blue sheen, no barring, speckling or white. Legs olive-tan mottled grey-brown rather than clean yellow. (Plumage from 23-Jun-2026 and five weeks stale; that frame showed neither the blue eyes nor the white wing and belly tips previously on file, and both shanks were bare where the roster puts orange #10 — she needs re-checking.)

Birdadonna's offspring — egg laid 03-April-2026, hatched day-22, making her the first second-generation chick of the breeding program (dam Birdadonna, sire window Little Big Red Junior).

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Bronze Broad-Breasted Turkey

“Social, curious, imprinted on handlers”

Gray-bronze juvenile plumage, necks baring as the adult heads come in — first bronze turkeys on the farm

2 Bronze Broad-Breasted turkeys from TSC.

Barred Plymouth Rock

“TBD”

Classic black-and-white barring in — the checkerboard birds of the run

2 Barred Plymouth Rocks from TSC (25-April haul).

Plymouth Rock (variety TBD)

“TBD”

Plymouth Rock variety, exact sub-variety still to confirm from the adult plumage (Speckled/Mottled, Partridge, or other)

2 Plymouth Rocks from TSC alongside the Barred Rocks.

Mixed — Exotic Island Fowl Special (5) + Rare Chick Special (10)

“Active, feathered out — breeds resolving from adult plumage”

Varied — assortment of rare and exotic breeds

Cackle Hatchery batch from the 08-April-2026 arrival: Exotic Island Fowl Special + Rare Chick Special.

Bantam (breed TBD)

“A favorite of the Boss”

Black cockerel with grayish lacing / scaled feather pattern across the body, a few small white feathers on the head and neck, slate-gray legs.

Boss-named and called out as a FAVORITE 2026-06-18 (#meet-the-lobsters).

Polish (bantam)

“Boss's 'hunchback bantam' — carries a distinctly hunched, rounded-back posture, hence the Quasimodo namesake”

White-crested Polish bantam: big rounded white/cream head pouf, blue-gray (slate) body feathers with darker black lacing, slate-gray legs, yellow beak.

Boss-named 'Quasibirdo, my hunchback bantam' 2026-06-18 (#meet-the-lobsters).

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White Broad-Breasted Turkey

“Social, curious, imprinted on handlers”

Full white adult plumage, red heads and wattles in color

3 White Broad-Breasted turkeys.

Brahma or Cream Legbar (uncertain)

“Active, alert”

Fully feathered juveniles — breed to confirm from adult plumage

Originally 4 chicks from Tractor Supply, straight run (unsexed), Brahma or Cream Legbar — breed uncertain.

Red/Gold Laced + Blue Laced Red Wyandottes (3) — Boss-corrected 2026-06-26 (was mis-logged as incl. 3 Cream Legbar)

“Active juveniles, well integrated”

Varied Wyandotte lacing coming in — Blue Laced Red Wyandottes show slate-blue lacing and a slate-blue tail on a rust-red ground; Red/Gold Laced show dark lacing on a gold ground. Juvenile head feathering can look like a small tuft but is NOT a crest (rose comb, not a Polish/Legbar crest).

The first juvenile cohort of 2026, purchased early-March from Tractor Supply; started in the March nesting-box setup, graduated to the coop.

Blue Laced Red Wyandotte

“Active juvenile pullet, well integrated”

Blue Laced Red Wyandotte pullet — slate-blue lacing on a rust-red ground, rose comb. Has scissor beak (cross beak): upper and lower mandible are offset but occlude/close fine.

Blue Laced Red Wyandotte pullet from the March 2026 TSC batch (formerly part of 'March juveniles (6)' group).

Golden Laced Wyandotte

“Active juvenile pullet, well integrated”

A gold collar across the shoulders in which every feather carries a bold black dagger stripe, sitting between a rust-ginger head and an otherwise plain unmarked warm buff body — that one band of heavy black streaking is the whole pattern on her. Wing tips and the short low-carried tail are dull grey-brown. Full deep-bodied build, cream ear patch, almost no comb showing, a small ragged tuft standing up off the back of the crown. (Colours read from a frame shot under a pink shade tarp — verify in open daylight.)

Gold/Red Laced Wyandotte pullet from the March 2026 TSC batch (formerly part of 'March juveniles (6)' group).

Red/Gold Laced Wyandotte

“Active juvenile pullet, well integrated”

A hard two-tone split down the body: plain unmarked rusty-copper breast and belly running straight into a heavily dark-stippled, peppered brown cape over the back and shoulders. Neck and crown deeper maroon-brown. Bright red face with a conspicuous creamy-white oval earlobe below and behind the eye, upright red comb of about five points. Band is white #6 on the RIGHT leg (a purchased bird).

Red/Gold Laced Wyandotte pullet from the March 2026 TSC batch (formerly part of 'March juveniles (6)' group).

Unknown (dark mahogany-red rooster, single comb, yellow legs)

Deep mahogany-red body plumage with black tail feathers showing a green sheen. Medium upright single red comb, red wattles, yellow legs and feet. No leg band visible.

Acquired from Julia (30-Aug-2026).

Old English Game (Black-Breasted Red variety, unconfirmed)

Black-Breasted Red Old English Game coloring: golden-straw hackle and saddle feathers, chestnut-red back and wing bows, black breast and belly, iridescent black-green tail. Single red comb, red wattles, slate/grey legs. No leg band visible.

Named Malt Liquor by the Boss (07-Sep-2026).

White body with black breast/belly and black tail, red single comb and wattles, slate-grey legs. No leg band visible.

Named Hawk Food by the Boss (07-Sep-2026).

Solid white body plumage, large upright red single comb, red wattles and face, yellow beak and legs.

Named/called "the White Rooster" by the Boss (07-Sep-2026).

Calico/multicolor patterning: black-speckled silvery-white head and neck, gold/straw and rust saddle feathers, black-and-white barred wing coverts and tail. Bright red single comb, red wattles, yellow legs. No leg band visible.

Named Loud Dumb Bird by the Boss (07-Sep-2026) — this is the "calico rooster" flagged same morning in docs/plans/07-Sep-2026-juvenile-to-rooster-roster-promotion-gap.

Easter Egger (rooster)

Mottled black and gray body plumage with gold and cream lacing on the neck hackles. Gray wing and tail feathers with rust-brown barring. Bright red single comb, red face and wattles, orange eye, dark beak. No leg band visible.

Named "EE Rooster" by the Boss (11-Sep-2026) — literal name, not a placeholder.