Baby Chick Pictures!!!!! POST!

[chickencrazy429]

I just got my first baby chick two days ago. Two more are coming soon, so she won't be lonely. Her name is Omelette.

 

[Chambertin]

Made a new cross breed. Mixed my favorite two kinds of chicken Houdan and Silkie.
They look like little penguins, I cant wait to see them grow up.

 

[chickencrazy429]

AAwww!! It does look like a little penguin!!!

 

[RedPonyAcres]

We got our first chicks yesterday! Went to Tractor Supply and got 7 chicks (the lucky 7). I was going to get 6, but they had the cutest little Bantams and I couldn't resist.

They are straight-run Bantams, but there was a customer there who told the TS employee that she wanted 6 of them "with their panties on". I asked her what she meant and she said that they were the ones that had feathers on their legs. Said that last year they got the ones without leg feathers and they ended up being a different kind, something about them being thinner and not as friendly or something? Anyway, she also asked the guy to try to get her girls. He said that he wasn't really allowed to do that, but did it anyway because the manager wasn't around. When it was my turn I asked for the same thing that the other lady got, so ended up with this (hopefully) little girl:

I don't know what kind of Bantam she is.



I also got 5 Gold Sex Links, 2 orangey ones and 3 beige ones. I'm wondering what the beige ones look like when they are grown up? Are they white or beige?




Also got this little one. She is so pretty! She was in a tub marked "pullets" and there was a list of breeds that she could be. I am really new at this, so it is probably obvious to most of you here, but can anyone give me guesses as to what breed? I wish I had gotten more than one. They only had a few left like this, too.






I rigged up a brooder using 2 cardboard boxes taped together, but I think I will switch to a really big plastic tub that I have after reading on here about brooders.

Thanks!
-Patti

 

[JLaw]

well here are my new chicks in they're new home. little grey one is wife's, the little yellow one with brown face is son, daughter and I are sharing the silkie's the one behind food dish and the one in front of pack. By shareing I mean if one becomes a roo and is mean its mine and will have to trade it in for a different silkie. the rest are just my egg layers nothing special. Sons is out of a red bin at TS wife's out of assorted bantams and the other 6 are also out of reds bin at TS. but as you can see none like the roost poles I made out of 4x4 and 5/16ths rods. we are using a dog kennel for them atm.

 

[countrygirl74]

We got our first chicks yesterday! Went to Tractor Supply and got 7 chicks (the lucky 7). I was going to get 6, but they had the cutest little Bantams and I couldn't resist.

They are straight-run Bantams, but there was a customer there who told the TS employee that she wanted 6 of them "with their panties on". I asked her what she meant and she said that they were the ones that had feathers on their legs. Said that last year they got the ones without leg feathers and they ended up being a different kind, something about them being thinner and not as friendly or something? Anyway, she also asked the guy to try to get her girls. He said that he wasn't really allowed to do that, but did it anyway because the manager wasn't around. When it was my turn I asked for the same thing that the other lady got, so ended up with this (hopefully) little girl:

I don't know what kind of Bantam she is.



I also got 5 Gold Sex Links, 2 orangey ones and 3 beige ones. I'm wondering what the beige ones look like when they are grown up? Are they white or beige?




Also got this little one. She is so pretty! She was in a tub marked "pullets" and there was a list of breeds that she could be. I am really new at this, so it is probably obvious to most of you here, but can anyone give me guesses as to what breed? I wish I had gotten more than one. They only had a few left like this, too.






I rigged up a brooder using 2 cardboard boxes taped together, but I think I will switch to a really big plastic tub that I have after reading on here about brooders.

Thanks!
-Patti

Your last little chick looks like my Golden Laced Wyandotte - could also possibly be a Sussex... maybe some others will comment as well.

 

[missnu01]

Here are some not so great pictures, but does anyone happen to know what these chicks are? They were in an assorted red pullet bin, that were all the same...so not much of an assortment. I am assuming they are red sexlinks...All I know is they are the most friendly little cutie patooties of the whole bunch. They are also smaller than all the other chicks of the same age. There isn't anything wrong with them, as they are both the same size...but they are smaller than the others, leghorns, EEs and Buff Orpingtons...the orps are the largest of course, unless you count the meat birds...because the meaties look like small basket balls.

Omg I forgot the pictures...











Here are some other pics of the leghorn chicks and a meat birds when they were just a few days old..They look much different now of course. We got them on the 6th and 7th so they are a good bit older now...or in chicken terms, way different looking. You guys know how these little things grow.

 

[missnu01]

I would get more of the red pullets, but when I went today all the chicks at tractor supply look sick...a buff orp had been pecked to death...it was nothing but black scabs, and well it was dead...I'm not going to buy chicks that are in a bin with dead chicks...just seems like a bad idea. They all looked listless and just well, not healthy.

 

[chickencrazy429]

We got our first chicks yesterday! Went to Tractor Supply and got 7 chicks (the lucky 7). I was going to get 6, but they had the cutest little Bantams and I couldn't resist.

They are straight-run Bantams, but there was a customer there who told the TS employee that she wanted 6 of them "with their panties on". I asked her what she meant and she said that they were the ones that had feathers on their legs. Said that last year they got the ones without leg feathers and they ended up being a different kind, something about them being thinner and not as friendly or something? Anyway, she also asked the guy to try to get her girls. He said that he wasn't really allowed to do that, but did it anyway because the manager wasn't around. When it was my turn I asked for the same thing that the other lady got, so ended up with this (hopefully) little girl:

I don't know what kind of Bantam she is.



I also got 5 Gold Sex Links, 2 orangey ones and 3 beige ones. I'm wondering what the beige ones look like when they are grown up? Are they white or beige?




Also got this little one. She is so pretty! She was in a tub marked "pullets" and there was a list of breeds that she could be. I am really new at this, so it is probably obvious to most of you here, but can anyone give me guesses as to what breed? I wish I had gotten more than one. They only had a few left like this, too.






I rigged up a brooder using 2 cardboard boxes taped together, but I think I will switch to a really big plastic tub that I have after reading on here about brooders.

Thanks!
-Patti

Also, in addition to countrygirl's guesses to your last one's breed, she looks like an EE (Easter Egger) I know they can sometimes come dark like that. But, just a guess! Is your bantam a BR (Barred Rock)??? Have fun with your new chicks!

 

[RedPonyAcres]

Also, in addition to countrygirl's guesses to your last one's breed, she looks like an EE (Easter Egger) I know they can sometimes come dark like that. But, just a guess! Is your bantam a BR (Barred Rock)??? Have fun with your new chicks!

Thanks! I thought she might be an EE too, after poking around the forum here.

I have no idea on the bantam, but a Barred Rock is possible. I hope so, because I have heard a lot of good things about that breed.