HOLIDAY HATCH PARTY... chicks anyone... the party continues....

[wegotchickens]

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It always works out that way for me, too.

My first clue for that is usually: Does the chick really like me? Follow me around? Peep for me to come get it should it get lost? Let me pick it up well past the time when it's siblings are aloof? Well then, time to get the blue party favors because it's a boy.

Sad, ain't it?

The other way to tell is if they scream and pitch a stinking fit any time I reach into the pen (It's gonna EAT ME!). Those have always turned out to be boys as well. The girl chicks look at the hand to see if it's got something to eat. They're soooo much more sensible that way!

 

[evonne]

well, i decided to go unhalloween names on these guys.. the one i tried to dye orange is pokey... he was the last one hatched...
the others are Painintheass, Loud, Noisy, Annoying, Obnoxious..... which is which?? it doesn't matter.. their all interchangable names depending on the moment...

and here's the designers egg chain.. lol..
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=129427

 

[Freckle Face Farm]

Ok so on top of my Halloween chicks today when I was at the feed store I opened the broder

2 little chicks just waiting for me in the bunches of colors where 2 white EE's

All girls so

I had to bring them home in the pic they look a little yelow but they are Beautiful white...They are from Ideal hatchery

First time I have seen whites...

 

[wegotchickens]

Pretty!
I'm grateful that my feed stores only sell chicks for a VERY limited amount of time.
DH is even more grateful than I!

 

[neferset]

Our feed store will order chicks for you if you ask, but they don't keep them in the store. If they did, I'd be in such trouble. As it is, I'm pretty bad.

Evonne, your names for the chicks positively killed me.

 

[evonne]

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i broke down and moved their cage.. they're now chirping right in front of me... but in a much lower volume... lol... they sure are needy little guys... omg... and i'm about to put another 18 in the bator?? what am i thinking....

 

[evonne]

crap... i probly need to build a real brooder.....

 

[Happy Chooks]

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My first clue for that is usually: Does the chick really like me? Follow me around? Peep for me to come get it should it get lost? Let me pick it up well past the time when it's siblings are aloof? Well then, time to get the blue party favors because it's a boy.

Sad, ain't it?

The other way to tell is if they scream and pitch a stinking fit any time I reach into the pen (It's gonna EAT ME!). Those have always turned out to be boys as well. The girl chicks look at the hand to see if it's got something to eat. They're soooo much more sensible that way!

Gosh I hope you are wrong, cuz that means I have all roos!!!!! Please no!

 

[evonne]

yeah, me too... lol.... i think i got 6 roo's this time.. they're awfully spazzy...
oohh but one maybe 2 of them are starting to get their daddy's dark leg color....

 

[neferset]

Actually, I had 15 Ideal EE pullets just like that. I'll never order EEs from them again. I now have 12. They were so flighty that no matter how much brooder space I gave them, they would crush into a corner and kill some one. Finally I pulled them from the brooder and put them in a low traffic area in a pen. They are much better now.