Brown Egg Layer

Good Variety!We ordered 15 chicks from the Brown Egg layer Assortment. They all arrived alive and were very thirsty (which is normal). We lost two the day after we received them, and lost another that got trampled by the meat birds we also got (they are huge!)

So here are the breeds we got:
2 Amber Stars (1 died)
4 Red Stars (1 died)
7 Black Stars (1 died)
2 Speckled Sussex

They are about two weeks old and all happy and healthy. Almost ready to move to the outside coop!

Thanks McMurray!

We were sent featherless chickensOur family was excited to receive our brown layer assortment. That excitement quickly dissipated when we saw we were sent a large number of naked neck chickens. (Exactly what it sounds like - chickens with no feathers on the neck and breast) Never in a million years would we have selected such horribly ugly birds for our backyard flock. Additionally these chickens are ok layers and great brooders. We don't need our chickens to brood. We assumed that we would, at the very least, be sent chickens that yielded a higher number of eggs. We also live in a cold weather climate. For that reason alone we wouldn't have selected featherless chickens.
Next time we're going back to tractor supply where we know exactly what we're getting. This was a real disappointment.