Baby Chick Pictures!!!!! POST!

[austrolover1]

HI! A little new to BYC posting (not to the forums though, been a lurker for a while, and a chicken mama years ago). Glad to find this thread, because, who DOESN'T love showing off chick pics?

So Little.. Salmon Faverolles and Cuckoo Maran


Growing:


Added a lil fellow (Golden Laced Wyandoette), and the girls just keep getting bigger and feathery-er (is that a word? ha ha)




And NOW the gals are starting to look ... WOW and some a bit gangly (those feathers come in fast)!



And I had to build a new brooder (which may come in handy for visits outside soon, and possibly sequestering chickens should it be necessary down the road, or MORE BABIES - next year)



I only wish I could have found a heating pad that wouldn't auto shut off... I would have loved to use one. However, the first one didn't come as advertised and wasn't returnable. So, we're stuck with a light. So excited though, as I got the horizontal nipple set up and they seem to be doing fine with it!

 

[gimmie birdies]

Nice pics!

here's my babies I think chicks are cutest at 5 days old all fluffy and active!

back left corner, Blue isbar/BCM chick, (Silver) back right GLW (Gold), middle is EE bantam (Eaglet) 2 in front are blue cochin bantams, (Blueberry and Button)

 

[pipAchick]

Ahead of the flock.

 

[JACspivey]

IF anyone knows what breeds they are, I would sure appreciate it too!!!

The last pic looks like one of ours and I'm told she is either a Cochin or Brahma.

 

[generaldsherman]

Lucky the NN chick

 

[Plucky Clucks]

My little Sebright likes to sleep on top of my baby Runners

 

[mekidsmom]

Here are the two feather loves I was talking abou. Are they barred rocks?

I'll second Plucky Clucks - those are dark legs, Cuckoo Maran! I've read a lot, but there's no exact way to tell the sex by looking at them at this point. Males will be lighter than females, but you're just looking at fuzz right now! You'll know soon enough though, they grow so fast! ha ha! I was thinking the other day, trying to figure out if my Salmon Faverolles maybe were not all girls and it was driving me nuts. Then I realized, I'll know soon, and I'm not going to get rid of any of them right now if they're roos anyway! So, I'm just having fun playing the guessing game and waiting. You'll know before they start crowing! They look healthy to me. Are they acting normal? Butts (vents) clean?

Quote: I saw it, but not until AFTER I had purchased one. Of course, the one I purchased I tried anyway... so couldn't really in good faith return it, and already got the whole deal set up, didn't want to try again and spend another $30 at that point considering the cost of building my first and second brooders! ha! Ho hum. The light works. Maybe next year though! It's such a good idea that just makes sense!

Pattycat - I have no clue! Looks like you've got a good mix there though! What a pretty flock you'll have.

 

[dragonbird]

These are all my new babies this year. Lollipop is renamed: 'Hen'nible Lector.

 

[justin7]

I'll second Plucky Clucks - those are dark legs, Cuckoo Maran!    I've read a lot, but there's no exact way to tell the sex by looking at them at this point. Males will be lighter than females, but you're just looking at fuzz right now!    You'll know soon enough though, they grow so fast!  ha ha! I was thinking the other day, trying to figure out if my Salmon Faverolles maybe were not all girls and it was driving me nuts.  Then I realized, I'll know soon, and I'm not going to get rid of any of them right now if they're roos anyway!  So, I'm just having fun playing the guessing game and waiting.  You'll know before they start crowing!    They look healthy to me.  Are they acting normal?  Butts (vents) clean?  

I saw it, but not until AFTER I had purchased one.    Of course, the one I purchased I tried anyway... so couldn't really in good faith return it, and already got the whole deal set up, didn't want to try again and spend another $30 at that point considering the cost of building my first and second brooders!  ha!  Ho hum.  The light works.  Maybe next year though!  It's such a good idea that just makes sense!

Pattycat - I have no clue!  Looks like you've got a good mix there though!  What a pretty flock you'll have.  

They seem to be acting normal and a playing and stuff.. I check for pasty butt all the time.. Only thing that worried me was I had those two out for socialize time for 30 mins.. One of them had the runs and **** 5 times... I hear the runs can easily kill a baby chick.

 

[jak2002003]

Here is my surprise bantam chick that my pigeons hatched out by accident.. I found it when I heard cheeping coming from their nest... pigeon squabs don't make that sound!!!

He has been on his own.. and thinks I am his mother... runs after me around the garden and is super tame and friendly.

Lucky I had a broody hen hatch out her own eggs a week later.. and she has accepted him even though he is twice the size of her chicks.

He will stay with her and the other chicks if he cant see me... but once I go into the garden he leaves them and comes running to me!!!

But he happy to stay with his foster mum when I am out of sight... so I spend the time hiding in the house!!!