The Flock

Easter Egger lineage (cross TBD)

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

Dark charcoal bird with soft, irregular pale grey-white scalloping over the body — greyer, softer and lower-contrast than crisp barring, with the head dark and white-flecked. Comb small and only partly reddened, and she is the youngest and smallest of the June clutch, so she generally looks a step behind her nest-mates. Read the band to confirm (hers is blue #7) — Henridotta is no longer a plumage lookalike as of 2026-07-29 (Boss-confirmed: Henridotta is bold black-and-white barred, not scalloped). Her description rests on a single frame (IMG_7731, 21-Jul).

The LAST HATCH of the 2026 incubator season.

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Golden Laced Wyandotte cross (Henrietta line)

“Settled with siblings in the brooder”

Plain, completely unpatterned slate blue-grey body — no bars, no blotches, no rust anywhere — under a head and neck densely frosted with white flecking, so she reads as a grey bird in a salt-and-pepper hood. Breast a lighter dove-grey than the back. Comb still small and low, pale gold iris, bright clean 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”

Boss-confirmed 29-Jul-2026 (photos IMG_8050/8044/8043) — classic bold black-and-white barred plumage, evenly banded across the whole body with no silver-headed or scaled look at all. Bright red single comb, orange-yellow legs, purple leg band #12 clearly visible on the left leg. The earlier hatch-stage description (silvery salt-and-pepper head over near-black body, scaled feather look) was WRONG and is superseded by this entry.

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

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Easter Egger lineage (cross TBD)

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

The only predominantly white bird — cream-white overall, the sole dark marking a smudgy charcoal speckled patch confined to the wing shoulder and upper back, with the wing and tail feathers below staying clean white. A grey-blue stain runs along the upper beak. (Plumage from 22-Jun-2026 and five weeks stale — the natal black head spot has already grown out and is no longer a usable mark against Ingebird. That frame shows a bird less developed than five weeks would suggest, so either the photo predates its label or it is not this bird — worth confirming against the red #3 band.)

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”

Near-black bird with fine, narrow, irregular white ticking rather than broad bars — the darkest of the dark patterned birds — with the head and neck more crisply white-speckled than the body. A pale patch shows on the lower back above the tail in her 21-Jul frame (IMG_7718); if that holds up in the field it is the one mark that separates her from Henridotta and Adelbird without handling her. Comb and wattles already well reddened, yellow legs. Band is green #2.

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”

Copper-orange over back and wings with scattered slate and charcoal smudges, finishing in a boldly banded rust-and-charcoal tail carried low that reads near-black at a distance — a striped dark tail on an otherwise plain copper bird. Face and throat noticeably pale cream-white, with a rounded rust-brown patch on the cheek behind the eye. (Plumage from 23-Jun-2026 and five weeks stale. HE WEARS NO BAND — plumage is the only way to identify him, and he is the worst-evidenced bird in the flock.)

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 her 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. She 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.”

Deep foxy rust-copper across back, wing and saddle, breaking hard into a blackish tail — rust body, black tail, with no barring or lacing. Carries only light dark marking: a scatter of slate-grey flecks across the nape like a dark collar, a couple of slate flecks at the shoulder and a thin dark line along the lower edge of the folded wing. Unusually extensive bright pink-red bare face skin, small low knobbly comb lying flat well back on the crown. ⚠️ Easily confused with Birdthazar, who is also copper with slate smudges — Birdthazar has no band at all, Birdsilla wears white #3. (Plumage from 21-Jul-2026, photographed shortly before that day's banding session.)

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).

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).

Easter Egger

“Confident, curious — the senior ornitharch”

Big slate blue-grey feather blocks laid across the shoulders and wings over a copper-chestnut ground — a grey-over-rust patchwork with no barring or lacing. Golden-orange neck hackles with dark shafts, a large area of bare bright RED skin over the face, and a strikingly pale yellow-gold iris. Comb low, red and knobby rather than upright. He is a cockerel. ⚠️ Compare Horstabird, who also shows grey over gold but has a dull grey-brown face. (Plumage from 23-Jun-2026 and five weeks stale — re-check.)

First successful incubator hatch of 2026 — from a blue egg set 16-March, hatched on Boss's desk 06-April.

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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).