Baby Picts UPDATE 3 weeks already.

[Chicken Girl]

YEAH!!! SO HAPPY FOR YOU!! You need to give me some of that beginers luck too me!!!!
We need pics!!


Chicken Girl

 

[babsbag]

Here is some luck to you Chicken Girl. I just did this to see if it could be done in a home made incubator. Now I want a brinsea, but I really don't need anymore chickens. But I am addicted. They are so darn cute.

I bought an old kerosene heated redwood incubator a few months ago. I need to set it up and make it work, probably convert it to electric, and then I can hatch a couple of hundred at a time. YIKES

Good luck, let us know how it goes.

 

[babsbag]

Here are the baby pictures. These are all "mutt" bantams. Dad is either a Gold Laced Wyandotte or New Hampshire and Mom is either a Silver Laced Wyandotte, EE, New Hampshire, or Blue Laced Red Cornish. I was really surprised to see all the different colors I got. Will be fun to see what they look like all grown up.

 

[Chicken Girl]

So cute!!! that is so cool that you could hatch that great the first time!! You could hatch and sell your chicks to chicken farmers! Thats what i am doing! I have a LG w/ fan and turner. Its seems to be going well!


Chicken Girl

 

[babsbag]

But mine are all mutts so unless they don't care, or I separate my flock I will always have mutts, but they are still cute.

This was really just something I wanted to do and now I'm hooked

 

[babsbag]

Here are pictures at 3 weeks. I can't believe how much they have grown. Being that they are mutts they are all different and I just love their feather patterns. The polish and the silkies are from TSC, the rest are from my backyard flock.

For your enjoyment. If anyone sees any roos or pullets please let me know as I have NO IDEA

I wish I had been able to mark them as they were born so I would know for certain who is who. Dad is either Gold Laced Wyandotte or New Hampshire. All Bantams.


#1 No idea who mom is

#2 Polish from TSC

#3 Mom is New Hampshire

#4 Mom is a Blue Laced Red Cornish

#5 Mom is my EE

#6 Mom is Silver Laced Wyandotte

#7 This is Midnight, first one hatched, at midnight. From the looks of the cheeks I would say that mom is my EE

 

[SilverPhoenix]

They look like they're feathering out out into pretty little things! I love mutts--it's so fun to see what colors they turn out! Oftentimes they end up very cool-looking.

 

[babsbag]

I am totally hooked on chicks, but I just don't know what to do with all of them. I only wanted a few for eggs. Oh my, what have I done. DH and I have decided that using them for food is just too much work and we don't want to go there right now. So if I have roos, and I am sure I have some, then I need to find homes for them. But who wants mutts, even if I give them away. Oh well, I have a while before I have to worry about it. They sure are cute though.

 

[PoultryPeeps]

You would be surprised how many people don't know or care what 'kind' of chickens they are buying. If you really want to get rid of some of them, sell them when they are still little and cute! When you are advertising, call them "barnyard mix" not mutts or else list the X's you think they are because it sounds cool to say "Silver Laced Wynadotte X Ameraucana" or whatever. I never give my chicks or chickens away, because it isn't necessary and people often take better care of animals they have paid something for.

Those are adorable chicks! Good luck!

 

[babsbag]

PoultryPeeps, thanks for the tips. I might just do that this weekend. I have 15 in the brooder, 9 with my broody, and another broody sitting on 5.

I was looking at chick #5 this morning in my brooder and she/he is starting to get a feather collar. It is really cute, and the only one like that. I will have to try to get a better picture of it.