Hahaha, don't we all remember the awkward teenage years.... . Sparkle's black feathering is just beautiful. My daughters call it a necklace, and well, Sparkle's necklace is beautiful! I can't wait for mine to feather out as she grows.
Hahaha, uh oh! Well I'll make sure to stray away from the 'clearance' tanks at my co-op.... I'll take the LONG way around for my supplies. Haha. Chicken math.
Hahaha, she really does, you are right! One day this week, all the 5 week olds didn't have their head feathers, then the next day they were all sprouting wildly untamed feathers. Haha.
Thank you!
Updated pics of the chicks, littles and bigs.
Sophia, EE, 4 weeks old:
Izzie, CM, 4 weeks old:
Betty, BA, 4 weeks old:
Blanche, LB, 5 weeks old:
Dorothy, EE, 5 weeks old:
Mrs. McGillicuddy, GSL, 5 weeks old: (and a face only a mother could love)
The big chicks, 12 weeks old...
Same here! And I scoop and add to run as needed. Right now, about twice a week is plenty, but I know it could change. I check the hen house just about every day and if it smells fresh, looks fresh, then I wait. I think the PDZ helps with that because it neutralizes the ammonia smell.
Betty, or as she has earned this past week, "Betty the Brave". She has gained a lot of confidence and does not shy away from the bigger chicks, and they don't mind her either. I even watched her steal away a worm from the big chicks and hold her own. Yum!
4 weeks:
I figured I needed to update my weekly pics, if not to share with the EE world, at least for me to keep a record.
Sophia, 4 weeks old:
Dorothy, 5 weeks old: (she is looking wildly fierce here, haha)
Rose, 12 weeks:
Well, its official, Blanche is a lap chicken. She is the first to hop up onto my lap when I sit down, and she follows me around like a lost puppy.
5 weeks old:
She also has somehow pulled off one of her toenails... so I cleaned it up the day it happened when the toe was freshly...
Just a piece of advice. The deep litter method is meant to use small, natural microorganisms to break down manure and other bedding into soil (that you could then use in your garden, yum). However, DE will kill lots of those good microorganisms that you want and need to have around. I had...
They are adorable! Sorry about your ones that didn't hatch... perhaps just bad handling of the eggs before they got to you?
The dark ones are definitely hard to tell, but in some of your pics they are more obvious. The partridge ones are so cute with their little chipmunk stripes...
They look great to me! Cockerels are lighter colored which means the barring is stronger in them, hence making them lighter. Pullets will be different looking, and once they grow and molt and get their adult plumage, you'll notice they look like a typical BR. My girl is 12 weeks and she is...
Has anyone seen this! You won't regret watching... Sort of amazing to see what is happening INSIDE the egg as its incubated!
And if that didn't work, here it is again:
Quite the mystery huh? But like others before me have said, that is not an EE. EEs have a pea comb, and so this chicks comb appears to be a single comb. But I would be curious as to find out, since you got him/her from the bantam bin.... Try posting the pic under the "what breed is this" thread!