Look Who Has Arrived

Much to the delight of the girls we decided to purchase 2 day old chicks from a property in Murrumbateman, a 30min drive out of Canberra. There were a variety of cute looking breeds to choose from including both full sized and bantam chickens.

After reserving 5 chicks online, we received the nod that all was good to come and pick up the chicks on Sunday morning. Armed with a box, we arrived at the property in rush hour! There were 2 customers before us choosing their chicks and another arrived just after us.

Obviously these people had a passion for breeding chickens. Their stock included Wyandottes - Silver Laced, Silver Pencilled, Partridge; Australorps; Silkies; Naked Necks; Sussex; Plymouth Rock; Vorwerk (very expensive); Pekin; Polish plus Indian Runner Ducks! Curious to know more about the types of breeds, we were given a tour of their chicken pens by the teenage daughter who answer all of our questions. She was also breeding turkeys!

After doing the rounds and realising not all the chicks were taken we revised our order. The girls then chose 2 x Silver Laced Wyandottes (full sized), 1 x Partridge Wyandotte bantam, 1 x Silver Pencilled Wyandotte bantam and 1 x Blue Australorp bantam. The lady then asked if she could throw in a mystery chick who was suppose to be a Naked neck but had hatched with feathers around it's neck. The girls were very happy to have another chick.


And so on the drive home, the chicks were all named - Maple, Jasmine (Ella's) Rosemary, Willow (Katy's), Clover (Nat's) and Mystery (Andy's)! Now we just have to wait for another 6 weeks before we can tell who is a hen and who is a rooster!!! There might be some tears!!

News got around that the chicks had arrived at our home. Over the course of the afternoon we had a total of 20 visitors all wanting to hold these gorgeous balls of fluff. If only I'd thought of charging a patting fee, I may have recouped what we'd paid for them!!