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Two weeks and a day ago my husband and I bought three little chicks from a young girl who accepted quickly that she wasn't ready to care for chickens. She had some breed guesses and said they should all lay green eggs ... but her info seemed jumbled and may not be reliable. I'll make a separate post for each chick since I notice some confusion on posts with multiple chicks. I had one such post but I feel like I'll have better luck this way. Thanks for your help.
This is Uncle Virginia. He was 2 weeks when we got him and he had the least big kid feathers at the time, just a few curly wing tip ones. The girl we got them from said he was a "frizzle" and that was his breed. He was rumpless on his cute little chipmunk butt. His legs have had a little bit of feathers since we got him. He was also the smallest and we thought he was a girl. He's the first to cheep loudly if they get separated (whether he's apart from the other two or one of them is away.) He became Uncle Virginia about a week ago when his comb got so much bigger than the others' and I noticed his legs were thicker. Someone told me that cockerels get their real feathers later than females and that's when we started referring to him as a male. Today when I was staring at the chicks in a big glass tank (screen top) he jumped in front of the other two and made himself look big. In the last couple of days he's started to get what look like teensy tail feathers and his comb has become very red. Who thinks he's a boy? Who has guesses at what he might be or be made up of?
Two weeks old (homecoming day)
Two weeks old
Two weeks
Two weeks
Three weeks
Three weeks
Four weeks
This is Uncle Virginia. He was 2 weeks when we got him and he had the least big kid feathers at the time, just a few curly wing tip ones. The girl we got them from said he was a "frizzle" and that was his breed. He was rumpless on his cute little chipmunk butt. His legs have had a little bit of feathers since we got him. He was also the smallest and we thought he was a girl. He's the first to cheep loudly if they get separated (whether he's apart from the other two or one of them is away.) He became Uncle Virginia about a week ago when his comb got so much bigger than the others' and I noticed his legs were thicker. Someone told me that cockerels get their real feathers later than females and that's when we started referring to him as a male. Today when I was staring at the chicks in a big glass tank (screen top) he jumped in front of the other two and made himself look big. In the last couple of days he's started to get what look like teensy tail feathers and his comb has become very red. Who thinks he's a boy? Who has guesses at what he might be or be made up of?
Two weeks old (homecoming day)
Two weeks old
Two weeks
Two weeks
Three weeks
Three weeks
Four weeks