Baby Chick Pictures!!!!! POST!

[Selsley]

dont forget there will be some initial pecking as they find out whos boss

1 week old today and theyve been out in the garden these past 2 days for about 5 mins at a time, just like kids running in and out.
yesterday when they came out for the second time, our cock came over and did his little dance before scratching at the ground and taking a step back.
after showing what a good provider he is. he called out, followed by mum rushing back inside followed by 6 scurrying chicks.
i wonder if they were being taught warning signals.



im surprised in how fit and healthy foster mum looks after sitting in a nest box for 4 weeks
not to impressed by all the deep holes theyve been digging in the wood mulch on the coop floor though

 

[gimmie birdies]

upper picture lightened for details, lower pic dark chicks from above.

 

[The scrambler]

congrats!!

Awww sweet baby, congrats!!

 

[Selsley]

11 days old

 

[FlyWheel]

A Cuckoo Marans and three new baby Easter Egger pullets from http://chickensforbackyards.com/

They are all soooo docile! I can place my hand in front of any of them and they will climb right on it and sit contentedly as I pet them. They immediately knew what the MHP was for, that the stuff in the feed bin was for eating and even where to get their drinks! I didn't have to teach them anything! Not too shabby for three day olds, if I do say so.

Enough of the bragging, here are the "awwwwwww!" pics

Oops, make that four, they sent me a bonus EE

Anybody have a guess what this uniformly cream colored little peeper will look like when she grows up? An all white EE hen would be so Kewel!

 

[Selsley]

Anybody have a guess what this uniformly cream colored little peeper will look like when she grows up? An all white EE hen would be so Kewel!

im sorta 100% confident she will look like this one

 

[MultipleAnimals]

I just lost all my Hand Hatched Chicks. A Raccon Got Them last night. I had them in a large dog kennel, wrapped in netting with a light on. But siblings apparently unplugged the lamp, and never plugged it back in, so a Raccon decided to eat and kill them. I guess I am gonna reinforce the netting. They weren't even two months. I had just started letting them outside to introduce into the older flock. Oh well. I have 20 eggs in the incubator. I hope they hatch, around 18-23, 10 of the eggs are five days ahead.

 

[gimmie birdies]

Good luck on your hatch!

sorry about the babies!

I have 2 babies due on the 11th.

 

[MultipleAnimals]

(((I was just talking about watching "Jurassic Park" lol. -Multiple Animals-)))

Yesterday we went to our local flea market where I bought my 1st set of RIRs, and since the foxes got my roo, and Henny died of a heat stroke when the heat index was 122F at 8pm here in BAMA...a lot of new lessons and pain...but Jenny, the only remaining survivor from that 1st purchase, seemed to be a little lonely...spoiled albeit but lonely...anyhoo, I searched for the hatchery from Slap Out,AL and they were there so I bought a RIR pullet who is to lay in about a month, 2 teenage RIRs and I saw three little black chicks in a sea of yellow and told the man I'd like 2 of those. He told me the breed was Black somethings? but I just found them so adorable he gave me all 3 for $2. So, then I bought a used playpen for the wee ones. The man put the RIR teens and 3 baby chicks in the same box. He put who we now refer to as Cruella in her own box. Well, I went straight to the car and put the air on high and I kept talking in my senile baby talk and watched through the holes in amazement as the 2 RIR teens were allowing the 3 babies to run up under their wings like they belonged there. I can't sex chickens so I have no idea what my new brood will turn out but I am so happy that the fragile babies have fierce protectors. I tried to play with one of the babes with my finger when we were almost home when a teen gave me a loyal sweet peck to ward me off! I love nature and nurture. It's all so amazing. The new pullet has not one feathery maternal instinct in her evil body and after getting everyone home kept trying to peck at all of the youngins. She also has huge feet which I attributed to dependent edema from being crowded in a chicken mill...retired RN mode kicking in...they're still huge and she is still a mean gal. Jenny was extremely jealous and angry because she refused to lay yesterday and she started back this am. Wow, just like my fave line from "JurassicPark" when Dr. Malcolm Ian says, "Life...it, it finds a way."

im sorta 100% confident she will look like this one

The skeleton looks like a Pterodactyl. Lol

 

[Selsley]

The skeleton looks like a Pterodactyl. Lol

microraptor