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Chicken Identification – here’s Ebitz – the starlight green egger Hoover Hatchery

Brown Leghorns share the productive traits and nervous personality of their white cousins but have slightly larger bodies clothed in one of the most beautiful feather patterns of any white egg laying breed. Always alert, Brown Leghorns are athletic, excitable, noisy and often better able to avoid predators than slower…

We’ve got Big Bird, Melvin and Marvin in this group. We also added Frick and Frack, but I have some theories about those two (grey bodies/hints of brown). We’ll see what they look like next!

She insists on climbing and perching on everything. If I get the phone out to take her pic she jumps on top of it. So cute to watch the places she decides to jump to!

The two with the chipmunk faces were among the first of our chicks to get names. It was a toss up between Melvin and Marvin, since there are two, here they are! About the breed from Hoover’s Hatchery: The Starlight Green Egger™ is very similar to the Prairie Bluebell Egger™….

Big Bird was an odd clucker in the pen when we picked the chicks up. She had a downy orange/rust colored top (crown) and was in with the “chipmunk” looking chicks. We weren’t sure what she was, but we love the odd – unique – and special, so we were…