horselover1999's 2025 flock

[Cheekychook12]

Yes, I will be keeping 1 or 2. It depends on which personalities pan out to mesh well. Basil is a front runner, and the leghorn cockerel was the one that broke up every fight last night, so he's looking good. The rest of them are getting along well.
The girls are doing really well. They have been off of the heat lamp for a couple days now. They are scared of the orange cup that I refill their food with, but the glass jar I refill their water with is fine to them. I'll try a glass jar for their food and see if they freak out next time.
I just went and cuddled with Pineapple. So sweet!
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Reminder of how she looked as a chick!
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Pineapple is adorable, what colour is she?

 

[horselover1999]

The blue feathers sprinkled in say splash. She looks a lot like my splash Cochin I had in high school, but her head is way darker than a normal splash, leaning lavender, so IDK.

 

[Chicken_Obsesser]

Awwww!! I'm so glad she turned out sweet!!

 

[horselover1999]

They *might* be past their “scared of me” phase!

 

[horselover1999]

Lotus might be a rooster, but I can't tell. Lotus's comb is a little larger and more red, but has the same amount of feathering as the pullets.

 

[horselover1999]

I moved the chicks around today.
I had the three remaining roosters in the original brooder, and the 6 pullets in a breeding/broody hen/transport cage/pen that my dad and I built.
I moved the 3 leghorns to the other cage/pen (we made 2), then swapped the roosters to the cage and the pullets to the brooder. Most of the hens got really used to me and friendly over the days that they were in the cage, so I am hoping that the leghorns and cockerels will learn that I am not scary. The feeder and waterer in each cage is just a larger show cage cup, and the pullets were going through it fairly quickly, so I won't have to fill them up as often with less birds in each cage.

The girls have been without heat since I moved them to this cage a couple days ago, but I just took the cockerels and leghorns off of heat today. One of the leghorn pullets' tails was picked at and bloody, so separating them is what triggered the big pen switch.

Maple, Iris, and Pineapple were competing to see who could trick me into sneaking out of the cage! Those girlies wanted to explore!
This is Maple trying to convince me to let her go in the shop...

I think we're besties now.

 

[Cheekychook12]

I moved the chicks around today.
I had the three remaining roosters in the original brooder, and the 6 pullets in a breeding/broody hen/transport cage/pen that my dad and I built.
I moved the 3 leghorns to the other cage/pen (we made 2), then swapped the roosters to the cage and the pullets to the brooder. Most of the hens got really used to me and friendly over the days that they were in the cage, so I am hoping that the leghorns and cockerels will learn that I am not scary. The feeder and waterer in each cage is just a larger show cage cup, and the pullets were going through it fairly quickly, so I won't have to fill them up as often with less birds in each cage.

The girls have been without heat since I moved them to this cage a couple days ago, but I just took the cockerels and leghorns off of heat today. One of the leghorn pullets' tails was picked at and bloody, so separating them is what triggered the big pen switch.

Maple, Iris, and Pineapple were competing to see who could trick me into sneaking out of the cage! Those girlies wanted to explore!
This is Maple trying to convince me to let her go in the shop...
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I think we're besties now.

Awww she’s adorable
I’d let her in the shop

 

[horselover1999]

Basil is a keeper!
I gave each group some bell pepper scraps, and Basil was tidbitting his brothers over to the pepper plate. Such a good boy!

 

[Bockbockbaboq]

I love the names. I can't tell all my chickens apart from each other. I don't know how y'all do it.

 

[horselover1999]

I love the names. I can't tell all my chickens apart from each other. I don't know how y'all do it.

I watched most of them hatch, so I know who came out of each egg for the most part. Each bird has subtle differences that I took note of as they hatched.
I have two blue pea comb and bearded birds that I can only really tell apart because one has white around her eye, the other one doesn't, also one has a redder comb.
I can tell the barred cockerels apart because Walnut (not Olive, I misremembered) is blue barred, and Basil has heavily feathered legs and only 3.5 toes per foot. Violet (needs to be renamed) looks like Basil but has less leg feathering and all of his toes.
The one black pullet is Olive. Pineapple is the only Splash from a BBS mating. The two pullets that are white with spots I can tell apart by the location of their spots. Iris has more spots while Maple has one primary large spot at the base of her neck.
Clover was easy, he was the only one that was brown. Crackerjack was barred but had red in his face.

It's easy for me because they are all mixes except for one. I haven't been able to tell apart purebred chicks in the past, so leg or wing bands help.