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Yesterday a friend of ours brought us 3 more chickens.  Very sweet of him.  He has too many chickens.  All of the ones he brought to us are white, but they all look different. They are all pretty young too, maybe 16 to 18 weeks old. 

Let me tell you what happened, he brought them to us in a very large dog type kennel.  We discussed that it would be better to put them in with the older chickens late in the evening when it was dark.  So, I proceed with getting them some comforts, first food and water, then some hay to stand or lay on.  Well, putting the food and water in that big door worked out fine.  But when it came to the hay, well....lets just put it this way, one of the chickens freaked out.  She shot out of the kennel like a bullet!  I didn't even have time to TRY and grab her!  I am just glad that the door was aimed in the general direction of the main chicken yard.  So I went back there and opened the door to the chicken yard, then my husband came and shoooed the escapee out from under the hen house while I stood guard in case she decided to go the wrong way.  Crazy!!!!  While there was a little bit of jostling and fighting when she went in, it wasn't too bad and sometime in the afternoon she managed to get up in the nesting area and lay an egg.   I'm surprised the older girls didn't kick her out of the nest.   We put the other two in the hen house later at night.  So far all of the white ones are hanging out together and trying to leave the old biddys alone.  I can't wait to see how they fill out as they get older.  The escapee one is still pretty rough looking.  Must be from the trip, her feathers are a little dirty.  Now my husband is talking about expanding their yard area so they have even more area to roam.  Here are pics of all three.

The one with the brown looks like she will have a small comb.

This is Bullet, the former escapee.