Glenda with One Week Old Chicks Today(PICS)

[speckledhen]

They were out with their mama, Glenda, today and I tried and tried to get pics of this bunch. They move like lightening and were really getting the bugs from around my garden fence today. Here they are in the ones that actually weren't too blurry. In the first one, center stage is the Black Orpington chick. The others consist of two blue barred EEs and one black barred EE.

 

[ksalvagno]

What adorable chicks!

Do you let your hens hatch them or do you incubate them?

I'm new to chickens and thought I would like to raise my own chicks at some point but I didn't know what was involved with it.

 

[trilyn]

 

[speckledhen]

Glenda did this all by herself. I've had several broodies this year already and I fear they're just getting started.

 

[Judy]

Great pics! I love watching my mama and chicks scratching around the yard.

ksalvagno, you might find this article on broodies interesting:

http://www.themodernhomestead.us/article/Broody-Hens-1.html

 

[speckledhen]

This morning those babies ate a HUGE bee-thing, a scorpion, a big cricket that was dead and covered in ants, grubs and tiny worms of some sort. Mama killed the bee and the scorpion for the babies, but yesterday one of the blue babies caught one herself and I think got stung, but she ate it anyway.

 

[NashChic]

 

[ShaggysGirl]

They are adorable

 

[insiderart]

Go Go Glenda! I can't wait to have a broody!

 

[speckledhen]

Glenda's half sister, Delilah, is broody now!

I love broodies, but too many at once makes it hard to deal with, considering the lack of space to separate them.