BarnwoodCoop
Songster
This is gonna be a long post!
Our eggs hatched! 3 lovely babies, they pipped around 11pm-ish last night and hatched around 10am this morning while i was in my math exam!!
So, 2 white/light brown chicks and 1 very dark grey chick, by features alone we can already tell who the fathers are lol!
Pretty sure the grey baby is a boy, judging from the barring marking on his head, although i’m no expert. it’s harder to tell with the other 2, but i’m thinking one is barred and the other isn’t.
Brood advice? It’s not a massive deal, but we have 2 chicks already, at around 5 days now.
they aren’t mean, or a lot bigger, but they’re certainly more steady on their feet than these newly hatched babies. would it be smart to keep them all together? i don’t want anything happening, but i’m also thinking 5 days isn’t that big of a difference.
they’ve been introduced and everybody gets along, no bad pecking or anything.
we have space for another setup, it would just require buying a heatlamp +feeder/waterers to go with, although eventually they’d need to have a shared brooder. i’m thinking having them grow up together now is better than introducing them when things could go wrong with conflicting personalities haha
Pics in order!
possible dads, Microphone and Sashimi, half brothers linked by the same dad, a pavlovskaja
then the babies!
baby 1 (definitely Microphones chick- those feet!! Micro inherited those from his mother, who was the first chick i ever raised!)
baby 2 (Sashimi’s!)
and baby 3 (inherited Sashimi’s double toes!!)
i’ll probably update with a post in around a week of how they all look again! these pics aren’t the worst but certainly not the best
Any advice / name suggestions would be much appreciated! Thanks all!!
Our eggs hatched! 3 lovely babies, they pipped around 11pm-ish last night and hatched around 10am this morning while i was in my math exam!!
So, 2 white/light brown chicks and 1 very dark grey chick, by features alone we can already tell who the fathers are lol!
Pretty sure the grey baby is a boy, judging from the barring marking on his head, although i’m no expert. it’s harder to tell with the other 2, but i’m thinking one is barred and the other isn’t.
Brood advice? It’s not a massive deal, but we have 2 chicks already, at around 5 days now.
they aren’t mean, or a lot bigger, but they’re certainly more steady on their feet than these newly hatched babies. would it be smart to keep them all together? i don’t want anything happening, but i’m also thinking 5 days isn’t that big of a difference.
they’ve been introduced and everybody gets along, no bad pecking or anything.
we have space for another setup, it would just require buying a heatlamp +feeder/waterers to go with, although eventually they’d need to have a shared brooder. i’m thinking having them grow up together now is better than introducing them when things could go wrong with conflicting personalities haha
Pics in order!
possible dads, Microphone and Sashimi, half brothers linked by the same dad, a pavlovskaja
then the babies!
baby 1 (definitely Microphones chick- those feet!! Micro inherited those from his mother, who was the first chick i ever raised!)
baby 2 (Sashimi’s!)
and baby 3 (inherited Sashimi’s double toes!!)
i’ll probably update with a post in around a week of how they all look again! these pics aren’t the worst but certainly not the best
Any advice / name suggestions would be much appreciated! Thanks all!!
