Cold babies just brought to class by a customer. Pics and mine now!

[WriterofWords]

Thank you!

 

[Cuban Longtails]

Dorkings don't have fluffy cheeks and those look like they do. Could be Favorells, they have all of the above plus five toes.

 

[Acre of Blessings]

Not sure what breed they are, but i can tell you they sure are cute.

Did they say why the hen died?

 

[WriterofWords]

No, when the lady come in she said the hen had been sitting on three eggs but one got broken and then last night she didn't get off the nest to eat and when they went out this morning she was dead still sitting on the nest. The one baby had fallen out and was almost frozen, she thought at first it was dead and almost didn't pick it up. That is the one in the bottom picture still on the coffee warmer. The other was under the hen but very cold too. The other hens were hatching so she tried to put them under one of them but the hen grabbed them and threw them to the floor of the coop. She didn't know what else to do so she packed them up and brought them to my class. The are super fluffy little suckers. Very pale legs and feet, five toes, and one has serious attitude! If you try and pick up the one that came closer to dying the other pecks you.

Just looked at the legs again and they will have feathers on the, the feathers are so pale I didn't see them at first!

 

[WriterofWords]

Well so far so good, they are bedded down for the night in my office with a heat lamp. I'll let everyone know how they do tomorrow.

 

[jhm47]

FYI: Never give up on a "dead" chick. They can look totally frozen, and show no signs of life, and if you warm them up, they will come back to life and show no signs of ever having been "dead".

I have had chicks get wet, cold, and I would have sworn that they were dead. Warmed them up, and they were as good as new in an hour. I'm a paramedic, and have seen more than my share of death, but they're not dead if they're cold and dead, but they are dead if they're warm and dead. Some people have been under water for nearly an hour, and came back to life, but it was extremely cold water. Works for chickens too.

 

[lotzahenz]

Fast thinking Writy, keep them for your class project until they get too big for the class. Will they let you do that? If they are evil Silkies, you will have two new family members. They do have a way of "looking" at you that makes you keep them forever.

 

[Guinea Goonie]

A Dorking, Favorells ?? I will have to look them up. Generally the silkie chicks have the 5 toes. The extra ones are on the inside and look like one toe has branched out into two toes. The skin is generally black, but I have a few that are not, but I know they are cross breeds. Silkies also have short stubbie wings and do not fly very well. The silkies come in MANY colors including the color you have in the picture.

Oh and thank you so much for sharing this. I have a few broody bantam hens that sit on just about everyone eggs. It just seems to be thier job in the barn. We have hatched out seven little ones from them. We keep them in the house under a heat source after we retrieve them from the hens. They do not seem to mind, they pull another egg underneath them. You have to love the bamtam hens.

 

[NancyDz]

Houdans have 5 toes and so do Sultans, I think only the Sultan has feathered legs and muffs though. Houdans are a yellow chick but have a black saddle kind of, I'm not sure about Sultan chicks, never have seen one, the adults are white I think.

They sure are cute. Makes me want some more chicks! Good luck with them!

 

[WriterofWords]

Well as we speak they are having their breakfast, they did very well through the night. My son on the other hand will be very tired today, he spent a good part of the night "checking" on the babies because my office is right next to his bedroom. He is such a caretaker, it's hard to believe he'll be 17 next month,, he's a good kid! I wish the lady had brought me all of them she thought were dead, we might have save another, but it would have been very hard on my class to have someone walk in with a handful of dead chicks! Especially if the didn't recover. These two will run back and forth with me today so the kids can see they did all right last night. I wasn't going to do a classroom hatch until after Christmas, but now everyone wants to do a hatch! I want to try Silkies again, but I have to get shipped eggs, no one around here raises them. We'll see I guess! We have to name these two now, and I just have a feeling the aggressive one is another roo,,, just what I need (sigh).