Baby Chick Pictures!!!!! POST!

[Wendy High]

I understand darwin a little bit. From a newbies position, or at least mine....a huge thank you to those on here that take the time to help educate on here. Thank you for the lamens. Thank you for the repitition. Thank you for the info. All of it. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

 

[mekidsmom]

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!

 

[Winter1]

Isolate her and feed her yogurt with a few grains of salt, dissolved in warm water.  Use a syringe;  you don't even have to get it in her mouth, just wet her beak with the syringe and she will instinctively drink.
It's important to get her away from the others;  baby chickens will peck a sick bird to death almost before you know they're sick.  You may need to hold her pretty much constantly to keep her from panic peeping.
Edited to add:  we all like to throw out 'I think my chick has XYZ' but the honest truth is they are frail little creatures and the reason a hen broods a whole clutch full of eggs is because not all are meant to survive.  They seem to give up really easily and stop eating the minute they feel unwell, and can't survive for long without nutrition. 

She has been eating though. But I will try that, thanks!

 

[ShanandGem]

She has been eating though. But I will try that, thanks!

Your signature line looks like my house! Only mine would say:
2 horses, 3 hound dogs, 4 cats, 5 fire bellied toads, 37 gallon saltwater aquarium, koi in the pond outside, chicken birds in the coop and an incubator in the basement!

 

[heatherridenour]

 

[Opendoorfarm]

We just had a photo shoot! My phone camera worked best for this one. She's a sweetie climbed into my hand all the way up my arm to my shoulder!

 

[bluto in mo]

3 days old and all still running around crazy like this is my first run at having chickens. Much to the dismay of my wife.

 

[Plucky Clucks]

One of these things is not like the other...

Cyclops the Houdan and Cranky the Sebright

 

[BarneyNCyndi]

Our new babies, a rhode island an buff orpington and a welsummer.

 

[justin7]

Any idea what kind of breed these beautiful babies are? I'll take a little more updates photo tomorrow!