Got Home from Work and have chicks hatchedUPDAtE PICs

[Tuffoldhen]

Congrats Julie...My black cockeral is 8 months old that I hatched from your hatching eggs and he is starting to tower over my blue rooster who is a year and a half....

 

[BamaChicken]

Thanks all. Tuff your blessed to have him. It will take me about five months now to get him to breeding state. I won't to work on my blacks. You gotta love Orps no matter the color. Their just awesome chickens.

 

[BantyChickMom]

They are so cute.
I love seeing pics of little fuzzy butts.

 

[chickenranchwife]

Oh Julie, they are so cute! What kinds of bands do you put on them and why? I have seen bands, but can't remember what their for. Can you enlighten us on the bands plz?

 

[BamaChicken]

On the young chicks I use colored electrical ties. I can snip and change as they grow and I am using them to know which ones I hatched from my own chickens or ones from another breeder. I like the numbered bands that expand for the older birds. I think I got mine from Cutler for my silkies.

 

[chickenranchwife]

Oh ok got it! Thanks Julie.

 

[EmptyNest]

Congrats!!! I can't wait to get my orp and silkie eggs from you in April - till the snow melts and the weather warms up I'm just going to have to enjoy everyone elses babies

 

[skeeter9]

Hey Julie,
Those are some beautiful babies! That little cockerel appears to have a comb already!!!!

Where did these little guys come from?

Lori

 

[BamaChicken]

Skeeter, thanks, they came from a breeder out of Fl. that I met Jan 07 at the Lake City Show.

 

[RedStickLA]

Congratulations Julie!
That’s great that all 5 hatched and you are getting the male you needed. They are cuties!

Mitzi