ISA Browns Week by Week

[BonDEEroo]

Nice to see them growing! Happy intelligent little things!

 

[Shantelle Milliman]

I am new to chicks, but from what I have seen so far with my ISA Browns is at 2 weeks they started turning brown and as their feathers began to come in they got darker. The roo's are mostly white. From your pic, I would say they are hens except for the one in the middle which is mostly white and yellow ( probably still too early to tell for that one as well).

 

[Shantelle Milliman]

You were right I have one rooster

 

[KBMonroe]

A new update on the girls. They are 9 1/2 weeks old and it is starting to turn cool and the days are getting much shorter. I have built an additional run that is 4'X8' and they are running around and having fun. One change that I wanted to document here is they are going through their molt even though they are not a year yet. Feathers are all over the expanded area and in the coop. I just wanted newbies like me to know the can happen even at a young age.

 

[KBMonroe]

Merry Christmas everyone! The girls are right at 18 weeks and I got my first egg on Christmas Eve (WooHoo!) They have been much more vocal the past week or two and the last couple of days when I would pet them they would spread their wings a little and do the "squat". Boy how time flies. Chickens are soooooo much fun.

 

[aart]

One change that I wanted to document here is they are going through their molt even though they are not a year yet

That's just a juvenile molt, they go thru 3 of them before 5-6 months of age.
Nice documentation of their growth...congrats on your first egg.

 

[INNOCENT85]

Well I wanted to post some pictures of my 3 ISA Brown girls with a little commentary of what I did each week. Maybe it will help someone as I got some good information from the forums.

Week 1 - I picked up my girls from TSC as day old chicks. My guess was they were 3 days old since they were delivered on Friday and I got them on Monday. I used a large cardboard box with heat lamp. I am in Louisiana so they were able to stay on the porch due to hot summer nights.
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Week 2 - a little more than 2 weeks I decided to move the girls to the coop since they were flying all over the box. They were getting very curious and every time I removed the wire from the top of the box they tried to fly out. They adjusted very quickly to the coop and I would let them stay in the run with the door to the coop open. Same day as move they figured out how to move from coop to run and even fly to roost in the run. I put the heat lamp in the coop since the nights are getting into the high 50's.

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Week 3 - Two of the 3 girls are almost all feathered out. One of them must have been a runt because she is about 1 to 1 and 1/2 weeks behind in her development. She runs around trying to prove she is tougher than the 2 bigger girls. At this point, I decided to move the feeder into the run since they keep scratching the feed onto the floor of the coop.

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LOVELY,I LOVE TO KNOW AT WHAT WEEK DID YOU STOP FEEDING THEM THE STARTER FEED AND INTRODUCED THE GROWER FREED PLEASE HELP BECAUSE I HAVE LIKE 100 OF THEM ...

 

[INNOCENT85]

Merry Christmas everyone! The girls are right at 18 weeks and I got my first egg on Christmas Eve (WooHoo!) They have been much more vocal the past week or two and the last couple of days when I would pet them they would spread their wings a little and do the "squat". Boy how time flies. Chickens are soooooo much fun.View attachment 1217968

I LOVE THIS

 

[INNOCENT85]

Mine are 4 weeks now and are feathering out nicely from

day 1(arrival)



Week 1

WEEK 2 AND 3





WEEK 4



ANY FORM OF COMMENTS,OR SUGGESTIONS ARE WELCOMED

 

[TLynne1]

Week 6 - Girls are not changing much at this point except they are getting bigger each day. Probably last post for a while unless something drastic changes I am not expecting.View attachment 1148927

Hi,

I just got 2 Isa Browns and 2 Rhode Island Reds from TSC and all 4 are growing at this same rate! I thought it was way too fast because a year ago, I got 4 Buff Orpingtons and their rate of growth was slower than this! Your post help me so much! When I got them on April 15th, they were 2 days old. Tomorrow, they will be 3 weeks old. They were flying around the brooder within the first week! I came home earlier last week, one of the Reds, was on the floor (from the top of the brooder to the floor is a little over 4ft)! I have no idea how long she was out, but it may have been a while. She was so scared she didn't move when I picked her up. I watched for a few days, she is fine. I put chicken wire over the top so they can't fly out. The brooder is just a 2ftWx4ftLx1 1/2ftD. At their rate of growth, I'm going to have them in the coop very soon! Right now I either bring the BOs in to see them or take them outside so they can meet each other...neither are impressed!! I'll come back later with pics!