Baby Chicks Arrived!

[April Barta]

I don't do Cream Legbars, so wasn't thinking about pullet colors. I thought about the bigger comb and wattles, and thought I saw pointed hackle feathers.
I'm happy to be wrong, it's supposed to be a pullet.
Mary

Oh I am no expert! I was hoping you would educate me! I think at this age they are coming into lay and it’s normal to start developing the comb and wattles. I’ll look again and see if I see hackle feathers.

 

[April Barta]

What have I done!! We have babies in the PlayPen again! That was not really the plan...

Rudy, Rosie and Tina have new homes and I used the money to buy babies!?!? I drove a LONG way to buy a Cream Legbar BOY for our young ladies! Also bought a 55 Flowery Hen.

Oooh!!! I love both those breeds!!!!!! I’m thinking you made a good decision.

 

[Folly's place]

It's chick season! That's what we do, so enjoy.
Mary

 

[Enchanted1s]

Thanks @April Barta We had never heard of the Flowery 55, but I heard big white eggs and auto sexing chicks and I was sold. Really wish I had the money for 2 Flowery 55's, but sadly I did not. BUT - now we do not have ANY laying hens again.

I'm going to try to get Tootie to mother these new babies?

 

[April Barta]

Still no eggs from these ungrateful freeloaders. I thought I should update their pictures. We were just mentioning that we had not weighed the girls in a long time LOL. One of these days I will, but since they moved out to the Hen House, they seem to like me less and less.

Little Bit had already gone in for the night, but her picture is on this thread a lot. I will update with a newer photo of her when I get one. Here is Gracey and Buffey at 21 weeks.
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All three at 18 weeks.
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I sure hope that my Little Boy Blue will grow up to be fill my Blue Man expectations of him!
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Continue to follow our tiny flock here ... I Can't Believe We Did This Again

Any day for eggs! I’m waiting on a couple of my girls to get with it too. Lol. Make sure to post when you do get that golden first egg!!

 

[April Barta]

We got our first blue egg!!! Well, I choose to call it blue despite it's pale green hue! Unfortunately, I am not certain if it was LittleBit or Gracey, but my guess is Gracey.

Definitely not babies anymore!
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Woohoo!

 

[Enchanted1s]

I was right! It is Gracey, she left us another egg this morning. Here is a pic next to the Green wooden egg that she laid her egg next to today Yesterday, it was in the floor of the hen house.

 

[April Barta]

Our big girls are just over 8 months old now. Gracey and Littlebit (Crested Cream Legbar) give us a light blue egg just about every day. Buffey (Buff Orpington) gives us a brown egg around 5 days a week. Our little BlueMan is now 4+ months and his hormones have kicked in fully.

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He is asolitely stunning!!!

 

[Enchanted1s]

He is asolitely stunning!!!

Thank You! I thought so too, but I am a little bias. He has become SOOOO skittish ! I handled him every day when he was just a boy. It seems like the day his hormones kicked in, he became scared of his own shadow. He no longer wants to have ANYTHING to do with me.