Baby Chick Pictures!!!!! POST!

[vawldflr]

About 3 days

Now at 3 weeks

What breed are these?

 

[Cluckcluck1215]

What breed are these?

They look like Black Aussies(Austrolorps)Vaw.

 

[chippy99th]

My 3-week-old chicks, little boy Geronimo and little girl Una:

They're not on plastic surface like that often. It slowed Geronimo down long enough to take ONE picture, and the rest are blurs, haha. (Up until a week ago, Geronimo was known as Gloria.

) Una preferred not to stand on the table as she deemed it too slippery for one leg.

What breed? No idea. Both their parents (and I suspect they have different fathers) are several-generation mutts. Geronimo's comb looks like our head honcho roo McClellan's, but all-white feathers?? None of our chickens have that. I'm expecting that he'll gain some black and gray markings when he's older. Una looks like her mom did as a chick, with the gray mottling. Mom is now a lovely honey-brown, but with whitish legs, not green like Una's. Mutts are always a fun surprise.

 

[mcbrown7513]

1 month old Gold-laced Wyandotte

 

[dragonthehunter]

So cute I wish I could get some but Im not allowed until I build the new coop

 

[K&S_Farms_]

I let mom and her 7 chicks out to free range a little this evening. It looks
like they confused perch with the porch.

 

[Lobzi]

That is so cute. It reminds me of first night on the roost for my gray faverolle and her 9 babies. I had to help a few of them get up under her but she did a great job getting the most of them up there under her.

 

[K&S_Farms_]

That's a super cute family pic...

 

[Selsley]

That is so cute. It reminds me of first night on the roost for my gray faverolle and her 9 babies. I had to help a few of them get up under her but she did a great job getting the most of them up there under her.

we had our broody in a seperate nest under the 3 nest boxes, when she was confident to leave that nest and take them up the ramp, they moved into one of the laying nests which was about a week after 1st going outside, they didnt start using the perches until mom left the nest at about 4 weeks old, and then it was only to fly back and forth to the nests in the evening,
they stayed in the top nest on their own or almost 2 weeks before they moved to the perches to roost

 

[Selsley]

lots of people ask about when to let their chicks out and how they will get on with the older chickens, well we've only had chickens 9 months and in that time we've had 2 go broody,
one on the 20th december ish, well 4 hatched, 3 on 14th january and 1 on the 15th. and today when feeding the chickens and turning out the ice on their frozen bread bowl, which has happened everyday this past week. all 4 chicks were outside within the crowd of 14 adults and 1 goose,at my calculation, thats 1 day earlier (at 6 days) than the chicks hatching in the summer, and where as the summer chicks only came out for 15minutes the 1st time, these have already been out over an hour.

last of yesterdays frozen bread on the left






inspecting a bucket i just stuffed some hay in in case of emergencies

all 4 are araucana EEs on the fathers side, the hens stopped laying in october when they molted so we had no araucana eggs to hatch