I'm so bad at updating this thread, sorry guys!
Here's some photos of my little guys from today. They are 16 weeks and 4 days old. The roosters are crowing pretty regularly now and trying to mate the hens. Though they are terribly bad at it and most of the time just grab a hen's head and hump...
Also forgot to say that Blue was always the largest chick and when I went to band them all with the recommended ABA bands size "E" (11mm) at 6 weeks, I could not get it over his fat foot. So I had to get him the next size up, size "F" (13mm) I now know to band the faster growing chicks earlier.
It's been awhile so here's a bunch of pictures!
May 22
Tiny
We'll call this guy Splash cockerel #2 until I actually name him. Man I'm slacking:
My favorite pullet, also unnamed. Her eye looks funny cause she blinked with her second eyelid right as I took the picture:
I was calling this one...
So I gave up on the time lapse idea lol. It's too hard to get the lighting right, work the camera and try to wrangle the chicks ha ha. Anyways the chicks are 4 weeks old today so enjoy some pictures leading up to today.
04/05/21
The red is marker I used to tell them apart. The chick on the far...
March 29th pictures, chicks are 6 days old.
I attempted to take a nice photo on a backdrop, my intention is to make an animated clip of them growing up as a sort of time lapse, we'll see if I actually stick to it ha ha. I need better lighting and a better backdrop.
March 27th pictures, chicks are 4 days old, wing and tail feathers are coming in.
17 Sleepy Chicks...look at the leggy! (taken right before I cleaned their tank)
I'm totally guilty of tapping on the glass to make sure they're all still alive cause when they're all stretched out they look dead...
I've update my first post as sadly I lost one more to stress/failure to thrive. He/she just wouldn't eat no matter what I tried, despite originally appearing well. Everyone else is still doing great, have full crops, and already put on a tiny bit of weight! I'll have more pictures soon!
My babies finally made it home safe!
They hatched and shipped from Cackle Hatchery on March 24th and arrived home a 6:30am this morning, March 26th.
I had ordered 15, 10 Self Blue & 5 Splash. Cackle sent 4 extra, unfortunately one little guy didn't make the trip and another passed from...