Glenda's Chicks @ 2 Weeks Old (PICS)

[speckledhen]

The three little BR/Ameraucanas and the lone black Orp are doing well. They are getting tons of bug protein and mama Glenda is exemplary as a mother. Here are some pics from their "Bug Tour" today. Hey, sportsterchick, though it's a bit early, I think the Orp is a girl!

 

[Schultz]

They are adoreable!! The second pic makes that chick look like it is going to be so regal with that stance! Your pics are always so beautiful!

 

[speckledhen]

Kat, if you only knew how many blurry ones I deleted to get this handful of almost-clear ones, LOL. They are little zoom-zooms, which is what I used to call my guinea keets. Never still for a moment. What I basically have to do is put my camera on close-up setting, then lean over and put it on the ground to shoot. I never quite know what will be in the picture that way.

 

[bawkbawkbawk]

They're precious!

I know what you mean about taking pictures - I keep a "blog" diary of my chickens and half the photos I take are either huge blurs or completely empty frames - by the time the shutter snaps, the chickens are gone!

 

[Schultz]

I thought I was the only one who took a million pics just to get 3 good ones

Still, they are just darling! Oh, and zoom-zooms are an appropriate name for all chicks; maybe chicks should be making the Mazda commercials!?!?

 

[Buckhorn Farm]

They are soooo cute!

 

[insiderart]

Wow they're getting big so fast!

 

[speckledhen]

The worst problem with broody-raised chicks is that if mama gives up on them, they have to stay in the brooder....and then, they scrape their little tin cups on the jailhouse bars to be let out, LOL! They can't figure out why they aren't getting to run around the yard and dig for bugs. Two of these are sold and hopefully, Glenda will continue to mother the remaining two for a few weeks after the sold ones are gone.

 

[bawkbawkbawk]

and then, they scrape their little tin cups on the jailhouse bars to be let out,

Great visual!

 

[cmom]

I am in awe of many of the pictures posted. I Too, take lots and lots of pictures in hopes of getting one or two decent ones. The chickens and chicks just don't want to cooperate. I think I got a good picture but just as I shoot they move.