Baby Chick Pictures!!!!! POST!

[lapeste]

Crosspost from Silkie thread:

Hi, new around here and hope to become a part of the community. My wife and I just drove nine hours round trip to pick up our new chicks yesterday. We live in Los Angeles and this is the first time my wife or I have raised chickens. Tentative names and best guesses at breeds and types:

Baby Baby, White Silkie



Miss America, Cochin/Frizzled Sizzle



Penny, Red Frizzled Sizzle



Siouxsie Sioux, Black Smooth Silkie

 

[peopleRanimals2]

Her egg will be the final judge, obviously. Bet even if she turns out to be 'just' an Olive Egger I won't be devastated; after all I bought her under the belief that she was another Americana.:yiipchick  


Question: Since they are part Marans, are OEs more prone [than an Americana] to get broody? That was one of the reasons I wanted one (the chocolate eggs were a bonus ).

After tons of reaserch, I really can't find anything. :/ what I have found out (this is coming to something) is that araucana's have a lethal gene- read this: "The tufted gene in Araucanas is a lethal gene. Two copies of the gene cause nearly 100% mortality in offspring (usually between days 18-21 of incubation). Because no living Araucana possesses two copies of the tufted gene, breeding any two tufted birds leads to half of the resulting chicks being tufted with one copy of the gene, one quarter of the chicks being clean-faced with no copy of the gene, and one quarter of the embryos dead in the shell, having received two copies of the gene."

From, http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2011/09/ameraucana-easter-egger-or-araucana.html

The thing about this is, it is probably same with the broodiness gene. (I couldn't find any info on this also because it depends on the two breeds you mixed to get the OE, since it is a hybrid.) some may be broody, some may not. I really think that you could probably get her to sit on your eggs, because the whole reason that the girls lay is to make a nest. That is why you don't need a roo to get eggs. It doesn't matter if there is a roo around, the hens want a nest .You could also get another one of your girls to brood the eggs. They don't have to be hers. I am pretty sure that ameraucanas are medium broodiness. I hope that this makes sense to you, and good luck with your chicks! It would be awesome if you gave us an update when she starts laying

 

[justin7]

I am buying araucanas for 12 dollars a chicken. They are 8 weeks old. Is this a good price or should I pass on it? I asked in here because this is a baby chick thread and I'm sure someone in here will know.

 

[KerryP]

I'm lucky enough to have my grandpa's old Cannon - he used it a lot before he passed. I just figure any good photo I take is because he's helping.

 

[Jensownzoo]

I am buying araucanas for 12 dollars a chicken. They are 8 weeks old. Is this a good price or should I pass on it? I asked in here because this is a baby chick thread and I'm sure someone in here will know.

If they're true Araucanas, then yes. I am getting day-old rumpless tufted Araucanas for $12.
Honestly, even if they're EEs, it's not an awful price for an 8 week old...they've already gone through the most fragile weeks and come out the other side.

 

[9281022]

My new fluff balls!!! First ever fluff balls at that!
Marilyn (Dominique), Dylan (female use) (New Hampshire Red) & No name! (Rhode Island Red) My son hasn't decided yet. Wednesday I will pick up 4 more! Yay!! BABIES!!!

 

[pipAchick]

My new fluff balls!!! First ever fluff balls at that! Marilyn (Dominique), Dylan (female use) (New Hampshire Red) & No name! (Rhode Island Red) My son hasn't decided yet. Wednesday I will pick up 4 more! Yay!! BABIES!!! e

Awah

 

[FlyWheel]

After tons of reaserch, I really can't find anything.

what I have found out (this is coming to something) is that araucana's have a lethal gene- read this: "The tufted gene in Araucanas is a lethal gene. Two copies of the gene cause nearly 100% mortality in offspring (usually between days 18-21 of incubation). Because no living Araucana possesses two copies of the tufted gene, breeding any two tufted birds leads to half of the resulting chicks being tufted with one copy of the gene, one quarter of the chicks being clean-faced with no copy of the gene, and one quarter of the embryos dead in the shell, having received two copies of the gene."

From, http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2011/09/ameraucana-easter-egger-or-araucana.html

The thing about this is, it is probably same with the broodiness gene. (I couldn't find any info on this also because it depends on the two breeds you mixed to get the OE, since it is a hybrid.) some may be broody, some may not. I really think that you could probably get her to sit on your eggs, because the whole reason that the girls lay is to make a nest. That is why you don't need a roo to get eggs. It doesn't matter if there is a roo around, the hens want a nest

.You could also get another one of your girls to brood the eggs. They don't have to be hers. I am pretty sure that ameraucanas are medium broodiness. I hope that this makes sense to you, and good luck with your chicks! It would be awesome if you gave us an update when she starts laying

I very seriously doubt any of them were bred from Araucanas; none of them have anything I can see that might develop into ear tufts. More likely they are mixed with Ameraucanas or some other blue-egg layer, if for no other reason than because of that fatal ear tuft gene. Which I believe has been bred out of the Araucana in the making of the Ameraucana. Besides, I doubt a breeder of a low cost mixed 'breed' would want to have to deal with a high mortality rate before their product is even hatched!

What I was wondering was if an Olive Egger would inherit any broodiness from the Marans side, if indeed my Little Black Chick does have any Marans in her.

The Egg Shall Tell

My new fluff balls!!! First ever fluff balls at that!
Marilyn (Dominique), Dylan (female use) (New Hampshire Red) & No name! (Rhode Island Red) My son hasn't decided yet. Wednesday I will pick up 4 more! Yay!! BABIES!!!

Awah2 Those are so cute, and each their own color too.

 

[jwtyrcha]

Here are my chicks, growing fast coming up on 5 weeks old this Saturday. I love them, however I am ready for them to get outside and dirty up their own house! Just have to get the run finished. If any of you have an inkling of what sex they may be I would appreciate it as well!

Marshmallow

Pez

Licorice

SweetTart

 

[peopleRanimals2]

I very seriously doubt any of them were bred from Araucanas; none of them have anything I can see that might develop into ear tufts. More likely they are mixed with Ameraucanas or some other blue-egg layer, if for no other reason than because of that fatal ear tuft gene. Which I believe has been bred out of the Araucana in the making of the Ameraucana. Besides, I doubt a breeder of a low cost mixed 'breed' would want to have to deal with a high mortality rate before their product is even hatched!

What I was wondering was if an Olive Egger would inherit any broodiness from the Marans side, if indeed my Little Black Chick does have any Marans in her.

The Egg Shall Tell

Awah[SUP]2[/SUP]  Those are so cute, and each their own color too.

I didn't mean that they inherited a fatal gene! I just meant that the broodiness gene probably gets passed on the same way that the tuft genes get passed on, like maybe half of the chicks are not broody, 25 percent are, and 25 percent are normal or something, for example. I don't really know, but that was just a guess. Sorry for the misunderstanding!