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I just got a new flock of baby chicks that was hatched on June 2nd, so I'm setting up this little thread so I can do some week by week photo shoots of them and generally keep up with their shenanigans as they get bigger. Without further ado, here's the crew in their "We Survived Week One And...

One of my chicks Luna is super noisy, just bleating constantly, and I'm not sure why. I don't think it's related to the brooder environment because my other six chicks are fine and they all are eating and drinking, have good-looking poops, etc... The noisy silkie chick seems perfectly healthy...

So this was the only color of this bantam chick in the straight run Assorted Bantams bin at Rural King so it stuck out to me and I chose it along with a white silkie chick and what I think is a mottled cochin. But going through the bantam breeds I can't find any chick that looks quite like this...

I got a few assorted bantams to add to my flock today and I know one of the three is a white silkie, but I'm not sure about the other two. I thought one might be a Splash Cochin but after looking at photos of them online I'm not really sure now. The brown one I have no idea on, I have no best...

I just got my rare breed assortment from Meyer today and I'm trying to figure out what breeds I have. I did have one DOA but the others look good. I know that there is an Olive Egger mixed in this group somewhere and I think it's the little black one. But the others are a mystery. I'm thinking...

Ahhh, I'm so excited, it's like Christmas Eve!! I got the Meyer Hatchery Rare Breed Assortment (4 chicks) plus the Meyer Meal Maker. I spoke to customer service and they told me I could contact the hatchery after 10 AM tomorrow to find out what the Meal Maker breed turned out to be, but the...

Drogon the lavender Orpington/Easter Egger cross. As you may be able to tell from her photos, she's a bit of a jerk, lol. Bella the curious Speckled Sussex. She is the lead hen. Very friendly and not afraid of anything I've seen so far. Attila the golden laced Wyandotte. She hated...

So I have four pullets around two and a half months old and three chicks that are around three weeks old. The littles are fully feathered out now (and it's very hot where I live) so late last week I decided it was time for their brooder pen to go outside. I put it in the chicken run on the...

I'm pretty sure this lone egg I have quit at some point, but I wanted a second opinion.

This dray of squirrels that lives in the backyard next to mine has figured out that broadcast scratch = free food, and has begun systematically breaking into my run Mission Impossible style to get eats. I have the top of my run netted over as well as all sides of it, but there is netting cut...

I have a temporary netted canopy over my run (that was being made into a permanent structure this weekend) and somehow one of the posts shifted and the netting got pulled down, leaving a foot and a half wide gap at the top of the fence. My golden laced Polish Elvira got out and my dogs got her...

I had one egg hatch last night, and one today. This is the last one. Does it look like it is progressing normally?

I got this chick as a blue Orpington, but the hatchery made sure to state that they don't breed true and a blue can actually mean blue/black/splash, and that it's hatchery choice pretty much. I'm sure this chick isn't a black but it seems a little light to be blue? I'm just wondering if it...

So my Bielefelder chicks are hatching on the same day that my hatchery chicks are showing up in the mail. Out of my three hatching bieles, only one little cockerel has hatched all the way (a day early). Another has a dime-sized hole in the egg with its beak sticking out but has been that way...

This is my second year ordering day-old chicks from Meyer Hatchery after being super, super happy with their customer service last chick-raising season in 2018. I got a silkie bantam assortment of four birds that turned out to be all beautiful pullets, and a Meyer Meal Maker added on for free...

I think it would be really fun to hatch out some emu chicks just for laughs, but I obviously can't keep emus in a backyard setting in the suburbs. My neighbors already half think I'm a lunatic. Are they difficult to find homes for? I wouldn't be looking to make a profit selling them or...

My flock of chicks (four and six weeks old respectively) is being weird about going back into the coop at night to sleep. They have no problem using the coop for shade during the day and are smart enough to get it in it when it rains too, so I don't know why they feel compelled to sleep in the...

Example: Say I have a Bielefelder rooster and I throw him over... a buff Orp. Will those chicks be autosexed chicks, or no?

I'd like to make a red partridge or lemon cuckoo marans. Or to breed the colored egg gene into any of the larger full-bodied breeds like Orps or Jersey Giants.

I ordered my first incubator and after much deliberation, I decided to make my first batch of chicks a clutch of bielefelders. These chicks will be for sale locally, but I'll probably end up saving back a pullet for myself. The incubator will arrive May 7th and the eggs should arrive May...