“Our girl just started laying on the coldest day so far of the winter. She is the first out of all the day old chicks that arrived this summer. We are beyond thrilled.”
“I love my Belle. She's such a quirky bird. Loves to be held. Very funny personality. She basically lays every day. It's winter so I'm surprised she's still laying.”
“Even at 2 wks. our little yellow gal is bossy too. I can't imagine her as friendly and she does squawk a lot. Oh well, she's happy and I look forward to her eggs.”
“Marshmallow, our SBEL is our head hen even though she‚Äôs smaller than many of my others. When she was a chick she was the liveliest of the bunch and hasn‚Äôt slowed down. She‚Äôs very vocal, she alerts everyone when something is needed or there‚Äôs a treat around and she‚Äôs been this way since she was a chick. She can be very noisy before she lays, her eggs are a very light blue. She is mostly white but has a few black specks on her back. Her legs are slate green and gorgeous! She loves me and flies to my shoulder and hangs out there anytime I do chores in their run. She lets the kids handle her without fuss too!”
“These are our introduction to the chicken world, pricy but so far have been worth it. I ordered four hens and the chicks arrived healthy and chirping up a storm in late June, and I am expecting eggs any day now. While I can‚Äôt say anything about the eggs yet and might not until we get to longer days, I can attest to their personalities and looks. We wound up with three hens and a surprise roo, which the folks here at My Pet Chicken refunded without any problems. Seriously happy with the customer service!
One of the girls fell victim to a neighbor‚Äòs dog unfortunately, and the surviving girls are quite different both in temperament and appearance. Cordon Bleu is nice if not exactly sweet and doesn‚Äôt mind being picked up and loved on, and she has pretty white feathers splashed with varying intensities of silvery gray and a pea comb. Thunder Lightbulb is my tom boy - mildly aggressive, fearless, bossy, and will absolutely stand up to anything and anyone. She doesn‚Äôt attack but she will race across the yard to keep tabs on your every move and she holds her ground against unpredictable humans and roosters alike. She will allow some handling but only on her own terms, and she turned out a stunning pure white with a pea comb. In fact she looks exactly like the sample picture of the Snowy Easter Egger here on this site, she‚Äôs very striking. My roo Salmonella is protective, bossy, pushy, and I am hoping will not get huge bone spurs because he definitely does not like my husband and has tried to attack the poor man (but he‚Äôs mostly ok with the rest of the family.) He is very grumpy first thing in the morning and seems to have a very disapproving attitude with everyone and everything, but he does a great job as moderator and protector of the flock. I doubt he misses anything that moves in and above the back yard. He is white with faint cream splashes, almost like a ghost of a bar pattern in some spots. He‚Äôs also blocky and definitely more stout than the ladies with beautiful long tail feathers. They are all three very curious, smart, great foragers (too good in my mulched beds actually lol), not at all flighty, and while they definitely do some talking the girls aren‚Äôt very loud so they are a good bird for people with close neighbors. I did have to get a crow collar for little man because he was a crowing machine, but the collar works like a charm and he has resigned himself to the quiet life. We are happy with them thus far - they are beautiful birds, very entertaining, and have almost completely eliminated the ear wigs in the back yard which is why I am cool with raking mulch back where it goes on a weekly basis. Now we just need to see those blue eggs!”
“First chicks to lay, prolific layers - we are already getting one a day. Beautiful blue color, as promised! But Betty White and Truly Scrumptious get 4 stars instead of 5 because they are BOSSY and lean toward MEAN.”
“All the chicks I receive were healthy. At 3 weeks of age my blue egg layers becoming my favorite already and not just for the eggs but she‚Äôll someday lay. She is bright, inquisitive and very brave she figures things out really quickly and she‚Äôs very friendly. Though not the biggest she is definitely in charge.”
“I purchased my chicks in Nov 19. Shipment went out right on time, as expected and all chicks arrived healthy & peeping away. The only hick-up was the US Mail managed to deliver the box to the wrong post office. Not My Pet Chicken's fault at all, they had the address correct on the box but, somehow it ended up at the post office in the next town over from us, about 20 miles down the road. The post master there did call me though, to let me know they had inadvertently received the package & could re-direct them to me late that day or early the next. I just opted to run over & pick them up myself.
We ordered ten various breeds of hens, one of which is a Super Blue hen we named Lizzy (10 hens & one Black Copper Maran Rooster). All are great girls, but Lizzy definitely sees herself as queen of the hen house, lol. Early on, she could get pretty aggressive with the other girls, with relentless pecking. (Hence the name Lizzy Borden, lol). I separated her out from the flock twice in the past, for a few days each time, to give it a break, before re-integrating them back together. It did help a little & they seemed to have worked things out, for the most part, since then.
However, with me, Lizzy is very personable & friendly. She comes running every time I go out, follows me all around the yard & generally likes to get attention.
In addition to being the top girl in the pecking order, she is also the smartest, in my opinion. Always the first to catch on to new things (feeders, waters, types of food, getting in & out of the run, new coop, best free ranging areas for worms, etc...). Great forager.
As for eggs, she was one of the first girls to start laying, at a tad over 4 & 1/2 months. Which was a little earlier than the average, from what I read about them. I was pretty happy with that. True to her name she lays a fairly large, beautiful, sky blue egg just about every day. Awesome.
She also turns out to be a great Momma, if that's what you want. Recently, I went out of town for a few days and had someone checking on the chickens, to make sure their food & water didn't get messed up, but the girls went a few of days without having their eggs collected. So, Lizzy, the super blue & Phyllis, my Silkie White Easter Egger, decided they would go broody & were determined to sit & hatch all the eggs, when I got home. So determined, that I decided to let them go ahead & try. So, as of last week, I have 15 little fluff balls peeping away & skirting all around the run. They're an assortment of all the girls eggs (with the help of Roscoe, the Black Copper Maran rooster, of course), so there's a little bit of every color & mix running around out there now. At any rate, both Lizzy & Phyllis are excellent mommas, very doting with the babies. Funny to watch them show the babies where to get food, water, scratch, etc..., basically how to be chickens. The two mommas seem to share custody, though, as they're all in together & I can't figure out who hatched who, lol.
Funny story, but Lizzy & Phyllis were basically side by side in the same large nesting box while setting and every time one would take a break for food or water (which wasn't often) the other would methodically go over & roll the other's eggs back to her own pile & be sitting on all the eggs in one pile when the other got back. I had to laugh. It wasn't unusual to to look in & see both girls looking back at you, while pressed tightly together, trying to hatch the same pile of eggs, lol. At some point each time, they would manage to get the eggs split back up into two piles again only to repeat the same thing, back & forth, again the next day or day after that. Too funny. But they didn't fight, so I was impressed... I guess, each just thought she would obviously make the better mother for all the eggs, lol.
Anyway, other than being a little aggressive with the other girls, I really like Ms Lizzy & would recommend the super blue to anyone interested in plenty of nice light blue eggs, while being aware they can be a bit bossy & broody. Again, mine likes attention from us. Oh & my girl looks just like the one pictured on the super blue description page above.
I also highly recommend My Pet Chicken. They delivered my assorted order exactly as promised, when it was promised & kept me advised along the way - no surprises. Great company.”
