Cuteness Overload! That Jubilee Orp is just adorable!Warning -cute photo shoot! Warning #2 - I have a big fancy camera I really don't know how to use so if you have any photography experience sorry!
Since they are all straight run they all have alternate names!
These are all Orps from @Kittydoc who is a horrible enabler (which I admire when it comes to chickens). I was going to get 4 chicks from her, I ended up with 8!! I am very good at Chicken Math! And then she just got blues and it going to try some Splash Orps!! Yeah, sure I can resist those.
First the unashamed add for kittydoc's jubilees, how can you possibly resist these beautiful babies? This was a very hard picture to take, I could not get them all to stay awake at the same time. Someone was always dozing off!
Meet Sapphire/Silas (Black/Lav split) and Lilly/Lazlo (Lav) they just a hatched a few days ago:
Are you my mommy? This is Louisa/Louie (3 weeks - Lav) with both Sapphire AND Lilly underneath - all you can see of Sapphire is a little bit of white and black bum! Any unsupervised time the 2 littles are in their own brooder since they are still so tiny. But when they have time with the big chicks they immediately crawl underneath. Their favorite is Jewel since she is the the oldest:
Jewel/Jules - 4 week old Jubilee, can I just say how in in love I am with how they feather out - with all their feathers sticking out all over the place!!! She looks a little mad in this pick but is a sweetheart who loves to snuggle on my neck. I just love this "bad hair day":
Naptime for our first Jubilee (3 weeks old) just learning to tuck that beak under what I call the angel wings and whose name happens to be Jubilee/Jubal:
This is Sylvia/Sylvester 2 weeks and just has the cutest little tail feathers
Last but certainly not least Sage (the only one with a name that can go either way!) who is 3 weeks old and the first one I suspect to be a roo - comb and just acting very "roo"ish.
Aaah SO cute! I'm picking up a few chicks from her later this week! SO excited!!!Warning -cute photo shoot! Warning #2 - I have a big fancy camera I really don't know how to use so if you have any photography experience sorry! Since they are all straight run they all have alternate names! These are all Orps from @Kittydoc who is a horrible enabler (which I admire when it comes to chickens). I was going to get 4 chicks from her, I ended up with 8!! I am very good at Chicken Math! And then she just got blues and it going to try some Splash Orps!! Yeah, sure I can resist those. First the unashamed add for kittydoc's jubilees, how can you possibly resist these beautiful babies? This was a very hard picture to take, I could not get them all to stay awake at the same time. Someone was always dozing off!Meet Sapphire/Silas (Black/Lav split) and Lilly/Lazlo (Lav) they just a hatched a few days ago:
Are you my mommy? This is Louisa/Louie (3 weeks - Lav) with both Sapphire AND Lilly underneath - all you can see of Sapphire is a little bit of white and black bum! Any unsupervised time the 2 littles are in their own brooder since they are still so tiny. But when they have time with the big chicks they immediately crawl underneath. Their favorite is Jewel since she is the the oldest:
Jewel/Jules - 4 week old Jubilee, can I just say how in in love I am with how they feather out - with all their feathers sticking out all over the place!!! She looks a little mad in this pick but is a sweetheart who loves to snuggle on my neck. I just love this "bad hair day":
Naptime for our first Jubilee (3 weeks old) just learning to tuck that beak under what I call the angel wings and whose name happens to be Jubilee/Jubal:
This is Sylvia/Sylvester 2 weeks and just has the cutest little tail feathers
This is Sage (the only one with a name that can go either way!) who is 3 weeks old and the first one I suspect to be a roo - comb and just acting very "roo"ish.
Last but certainly not least is Joy/Jasper, about 2 1/2 weeks, whose feathers are just starting to reach the "bad hair" phase and absolutely adorable!
LOL adorable flock, congrats! It gets addictive, trust me!I couldn't stand it, five chicks just wasn't enough. I had five Barred Plymouth Rock chicks delivered from efowl.com on Friday, but my little flock looked so small, I couldn't stand it. Yesterday (Saturday), I knew I had to act fast, I went to the TSC here in Anderson and they had ISA Brown pullets with a minimum buy of six, but they looked to be about the same size and age of my Rocks so I went ahead and bought the minimum six after I went back home to do my research on ISA Browns to see if I thought they would be the kind of bird I might like to keep. I added them straight into the brooder with the four day old Rocks and suddenly my mild mannered Rocks became aggressive, and that surprised me considering how well they got along with each other. I shouldn't say they were all aggressive, there were a couple that acted as if the new birds had been there all along and didn't seem to care much one way or the other, but there were two in particular that were very aggressive towards the new chicks, in particular going after their eyes, they weren't doing any real damage and I decided they were going to work it out for themselves to get their pecking order established, but this is the reason I knew if I was going to be adding new birds to the flock, I needed to not wait until there would be a big difference in the ages of the birds, and I thought the younger the better too. The good news is that now that they've had some time together and slept a night together, everybody seems to have figured out their place for the most part and there's not nearly the aggression taking place there was yesterday.
Based upon coloring, and actions, I think one of my Rocks may well be a rooster (another deciding factor towards getting more pullets) and I live in the city. If he is in fact a he, I'd really like to keep him, but I'm worried about the crowing. I've discovered this product on YouTube (), and it doesn't seem to hurt the rooster at all, but it sure makes his crow a lot less pronounced and I'm considering something like this if he is in fact a he. I'm curious as to anybody with any experience with this or similar product, I'm not interested in harming the bird to keep him quiet, and I'd really hate to have to kill him just cause he's a he.
I'm also having a little bit of a pasty butt problem with the one I think might be a rooster, I've been putting apple cider vinegar in the drinking water, but it doesn't seem to be helping him. It's alright though, I've identified that he's a bird I have to give a little special care to and we're taking care of it, even if he's not a big fan of wet tail feathers. So far, eleven birds and all still alive and active.
Now I have to build a bigger chicken coop this week.
X2 totally agree. I only have pasted chicks that came from the farm stores. I had around 28 misc pullets from RK last spring, and oh boy the first week was a nightmare. I hand picked the non pasted chicks, but some still had problems.
Scrambled eggs are a great protein boost!
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I checked out your etsy site, but didn't see any chicken-related items --hint hint
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Newbie to the forum AND chickies, currently the owner of two RIRs and one Ameracana. ISO silkie girls if anyone in the Clarksville/southern indiana area can help me out
@kabhyper1 Since our members have discussed "wet" food-- fermented or otherwise, I recently poured a little green vegetable juice on some pellets just enough to dampen it. My chickens acted like it was something special! Like most kids, I found that if I offer it occasionally they think it's more special.In a half asleep brain fog this morning, I went to TSC to get feed because we have been out for a day (scratch dinner last night). Well I got home and went to put it in the feeder, and realized I got pellets instead of crumbles. They all looked at me like I was nuts. Instantly they went from ravenously hungry, to 'nevermind we'll peck around elsewhere'.Surely they will eat the pellets if they are hungry enough won't they? I had been considering switching them to pellets anyway. I guess this will be the test.
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@flyladyrocks ~ Jealous of your Orps from @kittydoc ! My Jubilee is molting.
Sorry to hear about your family battling illnesses! And yours, too ~ @Faraday40 Illnesses passed along to the entire family can be depressing, but at least spring is trying to break through!
@bradselig ~ My blue silkie that I got from you a year ago seems to be molting only she isn't losing feathers, but new blue ones are growing in among faded gray ones. Is that how they molt? She will look stunning once all the new ones come in.
@SilverWolff ~ Sorry about the Howard County ordinance mix-up. At least I sent feedback to Indiana's Board Of Animal Health (BOAH) re listing chicken ordinances although I haven't heard back. It's so frustrating when you can't find info!
