Quote: They could be. Austra Whites look like this:
Nice hatch! The blues will be hard to tell until they start getting at least their wing feathers. Otherwise they look pretty much identical to regular barnies. Ideally at least 3 of your 6 chicks should be blue. I expect my young stock to integrate and grow well with my adults. I guess I have been selecting for "soundness of mind" because I don't keep birds that don't agree or preform well with " flock" life. Every bird has to get along no matter what their ageCongrats, nice looking bunch o chicks. I love barnies and Trisha has some beauties - no doubt. I've noticed Barnies seem to mature "Psychologically" faster than other breeds. My young pullets and roo seem to fit right in to the flock sooner than most of the other breeds I raise. At first I thought it was just individual birds, but now I am thinking its the breeds. They are of Sound Mind. LOLWelcome to the world baby chicks! Six are Blue Laced Barnevelders, and ten are regular Barnies (don't ask me which is which, they move too fast for me to compare). 100% hatch of Trisha's (TLS Ranch) eggs! I think these three are boys. (Blue, regular, regular?)
Trisha
What eggs did you use? We are going to try hatching store bought eggs when our incubator gets here. I would love that breed!okay, so I have a weird question. I hatched out 5 chicks from grocery store eggs. They're white with a few small black spots. Well, they're growing right along & I just switched out their heat lamp to a smaller watt bulb that happens to be a blacklight. I've used the blacklights before - they work just fine as heat lamps. The bizarre thing is... two of the chicks have bright orange spots under the black light - the other three just look normal. Anybody know why? I'm just really curious. Now I'm gonna have to take pics of the other birds under a blacklight... Here's a pic of them when they first hatched last week:Here they are tonight under a black light: The middle one looks normal, but see the orange spots on the back of the other heads? They're a lot brighter in real life.
They really do look alike! Where these from the place in Sonoma? I wonder if their website is up to tell us what their chickens are.Funny Ron and CA Whites look like this so who knows?
Ahhhhhh Black mold. It didn't occur to me that it would cause the same problem for wildlife...... I swear, I learn something new every day. Or several somethings as in the case with this forum.
The pic came from Cackle's website...A person has to be careful when searching for "California White Chicks" you get more than chickens
Haha, well try looking for Silkie ChicksThe pic came from Cackle's website...A person has to be careful when searching for "California White Chicks" you get more than chickens
