EE colouring / plumage - chicks vs/ adults --- Post your PICS!

[Catandherchicks]

Here's my update to my first ever EE chick, Elizabeth Elaine - or Busy Lizzie as I've taken to calling her as she is very active. However, she is quite curious and friendly. Broody mama isn't quite so upset now with my interaction with the chicks. How about those epaulettes!

 

[Clio320i]

@Clio320i , I'm hoping my baby looks like this when she grows up, very similar coloring, just a blue-r face! She has a patch of red on her head, and very puffy blue/cream cheeks! Her underbelly and backside are all blue and her wings are blue laced in gold, and her back in darker blue. Her tail feathers are gold and blue, more gold.


She is 1 week old today.

Ooh! Ooh! I cannot wait to see how she turns out!! It'll be really interesting to compare the two.

 

[Catandherchicks]

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Here is the update for my one month old EE "Elizabeth Elaine". @djsgardens - It appears you are correct in your assessment (post 634) that she will end up in the red color family. I hope she retains the partridge feathering too. She and her BLRW hatch-mate and the broody mama moved into the new little coop outside. Temp today with heat factor = 104!!! Too hot to be in the garage. The coop is in the shade and I've got the fan going on them.

 

[djsgardens]

From this To this in one month Here is the update for my one month old EE "Elizabeth Elaine". @djsgardens - It appears you are correct in your assessment (post 634) that she will end up in the red color family. I hope she retains the partridge feathering too. She and her BLRW hatch-mate and the broody mama moved into the new little coop outside. Temp today with heat factor = 104!!! Too hot to be in the garage. The coop is in the shade and I've got the fan going on them.

She is gorgeous! I've always been curious - what does partridge feathering mean?

 

[Catandherchicks]

She is gorgeous! I've always been curious - what does partridge feathering mean?

Well, I could very well be wrong but I understood it to resemble the feathering of a partridge. Although, there are many different types of partridges, I believe it's referring to the reddish/brownish feathers with black penciling or lacing.

 

[djsgardens]

Well, I could very well be wrong but I understood it to resemble the feathering of a partridge. Although, there are many different types of partridges, I believe it's referring to the reddish/brownish feathers with black penciling or lacing.

I've heard the term before, but I've never had any luck finding an answer so I thought I would ask. I'm pretty new to this raising chickens gig.

 

[Catandherchicks]

She is gorgeous! I've always been curious - what does partridge feathering mean?

From this



To this in one month






Here is the update for my one month old EE "Elizabeth Elaine". @djsgardens - It appears you are correct in your assessment (post 634) that she will end up in the red color family. I hope she retains the partridge feathering too. She and her BLRW hatch-mate and the broody mama moved into the new little coop outside. Temp today with heat factor = 104!!! Too hot to be in the garage. The coop is in the shade and I've got the fan going on them.

And here is Lizzy at two months. Yea!!! She's a she! No wattles, comb just a bit pink. Both she and her hatchmate BLRW have been free-ranging with the big girls since they were four weeks and two days old. Broody mama returned to the "flock" (two other hens) when they were five weeks old. So the two littles have their own coop. (They were the only ones to successfully hatch.)

 

[sawprops]

Here is an update to my baby Blu! (Original post: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...ks-vs-adults-post-your-pics/630#post_17098957)

She is now 8 weeks and 1 day old and she is so sweet. My big girls give her a hard time and I feel like she is soooo lonely - but she stands her ground most times. She is a little less than half their size - they are 19 weeks old (Barred Rock, Buff Orp and a Delaware) and about ready to lay. They give me egg songs, have red faces and squat everytime I get close, so any day now!)

She's been sleeping in a cage inside the coop with them for 2 weeks and I let her go out in the afternoon with them supervised for the last few days. Still... they chase her.

Anywho - here are the pics! (Tagging @Clio320i )

2 weeks old




3 weeks old






4.5 weeks







5 weeks, 3 days old









6 weeks, 5 days old







7 weeks, 5 days

 

[gmatson]

The little chipmunk chick is Patches about a week old. Here she is today, at 6 weeks old.

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I'm hoping she is a she.

 

[Catandherchicks]

The little chipmunk chick is Patches about a week old. Here she is today, at 6 weeks old.

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These color transformations are amazing. Keep updating in a couple of weeks. There may be even further changes.