Alaska hatchers..How is everyone doing? Baby pics !!!!!!

[Ban seabhag]

AK B.B. your silkies are so gorgeous!!
Pretty sure I have some of your babies! They are 3 months old now.

 

[NancyinAlaska]

Just FYI, I have ordered BCM's and Ameraucana's from Sterling Meadows Hatchery, here in Alaska, $5 for day olds. Tori is also getting some Polish for me from Ideal and will work it out for pick up, and if everybody's not ready for the trip home at the same time actually has someone that can get them up to Wasilla for me. I've sent $ for feed, and everybody will be started and healthy when they come home.

 

[Mrs MIA]

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The incubator is filling up fast, even though all the girls aren't laying to their full potential yet. March hatches are pretty much spoken for.
3°F here this morning on the Peninsula... I'm so ready for 53 or even 63°F!!!

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

Well, we are almost done here.
We tossed one egg this morning, as its a total dud. Looks to be 5 chicks under mama now, with two more eggs pipped.
We did have to help one chick out of its membrane.
It had knocked the top half of its shell off, but after 14 hours, the membrane had dried up and gotten stuck.
We moistened it, and peeled it back on the top portion, then stuck it under mama to finish.
Its looking good! Very LOUD and active.
I am glad we helped that one.

Once everyone is dry and fluffy, we will put mama out to do her business, and then we will take photos of the bunch.
Got some black velvet, so they should turn out well.

Paula

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

6 down! 2 to go!

 

[Mrs MIA]

Cuties!!!!

 

[Ban seabhag]

What sweeties!

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

Number 7 is doing very well. Getting stronger by the hour!

I had to help him out of the shell.
He's a little trooper!

 

[77horses]

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What I do with my phone is I send a picture to my email address, and then save it from there into a file and then I can upload it. Not sure if that's how an iPhone works, but if you can send pictures with it, it will probably work in a similar way.

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And I know that I just found this thread and I'm not from Alaska, but I have baby pictures anyway and thought I would share them! Today, Ivory (my only spoiled little chick, born on 1/29/10, Splash Cochin/Buff Orpington mix from our own chickens) is 9 days old!

She has just recently started growing wing feathers and has gotten a lot bigger. She is so hyper and energized, too!

Right now she's taking a nap next to me after following me around all day. She likes chasing my feet when I'm walking around.

And for some reason, not sure why, when I put my hand into her brooder box, she will run up to it really fast and peck it. She does it every time! I don't know if it's signs of aggression/dominance (if she's a rooster, I can't keep her!

And I couldn't stand to give her away. She's like my little baby and she thinks I'm her mother hen.

) Or maybe it's some kind of a greeting for me? She does it to anyone who reaches into her box. She will only do it once (she won't like attack me repeatedly lol). Or maybe it's just a little ambush/game of tag kinda thing, like she's playfully attacking my hand.

So if anyone has any idea why she does this, let me know! She's such a sweet little chick!

OK now for pictures....... (these aren't as recent...they were taken when she first hatched and when she was about 4-5 days old.)

Just hatched:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/14678_photo_83.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/14678_photo_90.jpg

All dry and fluffy!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/14678_photo_98.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/14678_photo_102.jpg


She has feathered feet and a gold/brown colored "mask" on her face. So far her wing feathers look like they may have a pattern on them...they look gold/brown/gray. I wonder if she will be a gold/gray Splash color?

That would be interesting!


I love looking at all the baby chick pics everyone is posting! They are all so cute!

I wish they would stay like that forever. But then they grow up so fast. Ivory has changed so much already and it's only been a little over a week!


Hahaha well she obviously thinks I'm her mother hen or something because she follows me everywhere...in fact right now she's being fussy and chirping because she wants to come out of her brooder box and get some attention.

I think I spoil her too much, because she's an "only-child" right now and I try to give her as much attention as possible. But that's a good guess...She's always looking in my hand for something (and my mouth...hahaha yep she always tries to peck at my teeth and she tries to jump up and peck my mouth...I don't know why, I think she thinks I have some food stashed away in there or something or maybe she's saying, "What's wrong with your beak, mom???"

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Congratulations on all the adorable fuzzy butts everyone! The pictures of the baby silkies that Mr. AK-Bird-Brain posted are ADORABLE!!!! And so are PaulaJoAnne's new baby chicks, too!

The picture with all of them (so far) is so cute!

 

[Ban seabhag]

Just checking back in. I have set 8 lavender bantam araucanas... They are so pretty, and I've gone off the deep end anyway so what the heck

Hope everyone is doing well...

The baby pictures were so cute... I hope there are more to come.