Mistaken Identity

One of the Araucana chickens many colors

I unintentionally “recovered” a chick. Originally we had thought I had one less layer and Bengt had one more broiler. As his broilers have been growing like weeds we’d noticed there was a small one in the bunch. I made Bengt come take a look because I thought we should move it in with the smaller layers. I was worried it wasn’t going to do well competing with the rest of the broilers since they are pretty aggressive around feeding time. As we were watching it, I realized that it was exactly the same size as my layers next door. So we moved it over with the smaller layers. Once it was under the white heat lamp we realized it had green feet which means it was my missing Aruacana/Americana and not a broiler at all. Woops! It was a bit upset at being separated from the flock it had come to know and spent the better part of the evening making alarm like high pitched chirps and the broilers would respond back. Fortunately she seemed to settle in after awhile and she is now acclimated to her new flock. She’s the whitest Aruanca I’ve ever seen, but I’m glad we realized the situation. So now we have 14 broilers, 11 layers, and our “free rare chick”. I really need to get some updated pictures.