How Does This Brooding Set-up Look?

[3KillerBs]

Thank you. I don't know much about Wyandottes. I was planning on Delawares and was, until I talked to the clerk -- who has Wyandottes, under the impression that they didn't do well in this climate.

 

[3KillerBs]

Since the temps decided to drop below the forecast low 70's I found them huddled tightly and the thermometer reading 85 at 2am. So I stole the 60 watt bulb from my desk lamp and changed out.

This morning they're cuddling quietly.

 

[NatJ]

I don't know much about Wyandottes.

They have rose combs, lay brown eggs, and come in lots of pretty colors and patterns

 

[3KillerBs]

They have rose combs, lay brown eggs, and come in lots of pretty colors and patterns

Any idea if these two chicks are likely to be the same color and pattern? Their backs are almost like reverse image but the best I can tell with rapidly moving chicks their faces are the same.

 

[NatJ]

Any idea if these two chicks are likely to be the same color and pattern? Their backs are almost like reverse image but the best I can tell with rapidly moving chicks their faces are the same.

Maybe? You're seeing the backs as reverse images, I'm seeing them as maybe the same pattern--but one got spread apart to put an extra stripe in the middle.

The only way to know for sure is to watch as they grow

 

[3KillerBs]

Maybe? You're seeing the backs as reverse images, I'm seeing them as maybe the same pattern--but one got spread apart to put an extra stripe in the middle.

The only way to know for sure is to watch as they grow

I'd have no objection to an unusual pattern -- as long as it's silver and not gold or red.

 

[NatJ]

My best guess--based on the color of the chick down--is that it will probably be a silver pattern.

 

[3KillerBs]

My best guess--based on the color of the chick down--is that it will probably be a silver pattern.

The clerk who was helping me advised me to pick the lightest, most silvery-looking chicks with no brown tones so I did.

 

[NatJ]

The clerk who was helping me advised me to pick the lightest, most silvery-looking chicks with no brown tones so I did.

Since you want silver-based chickens, I think that advice was exactly right

 

[3KillerBs]

The 60 watt bulb is now a bit too warm (I've lifted it), but they have piled into the corner near the lamp instead of one of the cooler corners.

I suppose they know what they want -- they've been all over eating, drinking, and ganging up on another spider. Now it's naptime.