Chicken Saga- an update

Lets go back 2 1/2 months. Unfortunately while my family was away, my 3 remaining isa x's got loose from their enclosure. 2, like the other one not mentioned, met their fate at the playful predatory nature of one Oberon Borzoi. He is a hunter afterall. One hen never came back and i hope she made it to another new home. Thankfully Miss Midnight, A beautiful bantam black langshan was fine but lonely and took up residence with some family members. she never got used to the isa x flock and is much happier living with chooks her own size now.

So once we moved to our new home and it was safe to have chickens again we started our new flock. Our first lot were 3 australorp x's and 2 plymouth rocks. one did not look well from the moment we got her and recently succumbed to a tick.

About 2 weeks later we added 2 light sussex and 2 buff orpingtons (from one owner), 1 Araucana and one gold laced wyandotte. Quite a mixed bunch. We almost lost one of the buffs twice in 2 weeks, but she is on the mend now.

plymouth rock (Starfall) the leader

Buffy, the buff.

Flame, the wyandotte:

Falcon my Araucana


and one of our light sussex

Today we have 3 more chickens arriving. A silver sussex, a buff sussex, and a silver grey dorking. And not to mention one of our sussex is currently sitting on 15 eggs, so at current count we will have 13 chickens by this afternoon and in 15 days we have a bunch of little chickies, but more on that later.