Baby Chick Pictures!!!!! POST!

[GabrielBane]

Some from earlier today, snagged some photos of my Wheaten Sulmtaler chicks during our brooder clean-out.

These are all the same chick, I'm hoping pullet, 9 days old:

 

[gimmie birdies]

Sweet, looks like my Lavender orpington/blue isbar mixed chick

 

[Selsley]

Does anyone have this problem:
A hen sits on eggs and once the babies hatch she abandons them? I have one of two babies with me now. The babies chased mama out of the nest Im guessing, and one died probably of exposure and the other one I put with two hen who have been sharing a nest for weeks now without a hatch. I thought they might take care of this baby but all they are doing is keeping it warm. I finally took it from them and offered it food and drink. The hens were not feeding it the food I was putting in the nest so the little one was very hungry but mostly thirsty. All will be good now though I guess I have to adopt it. I seem to have a problem with hens just pretending to want to be mothers...

whether mum is feeding them or not, they can feed themselves,
i just forced the beaks of our chicks into the water once and they watered themselves from then on, if the food is close and you show them where it is, they will feed themselves too,

a blindfolded at birth chick will still scratch in the dirt for food, they are mainly controlled by instinct,so if the foster mum is happy to keep it warm, i think things will be ok,

 

[gimmie birdies]

Chicks go their sip of yoke, and electrolights in water.

 

[briefvisit]

Dromaius Novaehollandiae Rothschildi, tame-wild male 'Eric' (the Emu) with nine chicks about 6-8 weeks old:


Supreme Emu, Lake Muir, Western Australia

 

[gimmie birdies]

 

[chickenmomma87]

 

[Miss Lydia]

Dromaius Novaehollandiae Rothschildi, tame-wild male 'Eric' (the Emu) with nine chicks about 6-8 weeks old:


Supreme Emu, Lake Muir, Western Australia

 

[gimmie birdies]

7/7 ,4 black, 3 blue.


The very last one to hatch.

 

[gimmie birdies]

I spoil my babies the first couple weeks, they get a quilt and a bed with a slip cover. And a mirror...







They are crowding to avoid the camera.