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June 14 update. The chicks came today. Other than the lack of a "your chicks have shipped" email which I would have expected yesterday things went swimmingly. After reading that if you use a cardboard box for a brooder, you should put curved box board in the corners so they don't squish one of their 'pals' in there, I am surprised the box the chicks came in not only had square corners but due to its design, had short 'walls' that made it even easier to trap a baby. The poor Faveroelles! All is well though. The all ate and drank and tried to fall asleep under the lamp until another chick would come running along and step right on them. They are all over the tub except when they want to sleep so I guess the temp is good.
I suppose like all first time chicken owners, I am amazed at the capabilities of a 2 day old chick. No momma to tell them to preen, but the Astralorps were already at it. There was a small spider in the tub. They chased it and I didn't see it again so I'm assuming one has already had its first 'treat'.
I'm not allowed to attach pictures, hopefully the link will work. I converted them to B&W. I discovered, as you all know already, that red light is REALLY red in photos! The only one I took with the light off was fuzzier than the chicks.
I've got these figured out:
Astralorps - obvious - black ,
Faveroelles - yellow, 5 toes, a bit smaller than the rest
Ancona - yellow with a lot of black.
Ameraucana - I THINK must be the other yellow ones
Partridge Chanteclers and Blue Red Cubalaya - no clue. The other 4 chicks are yellow with brown but none are closely patterned enough to say 'these two are the same'. I think once their wing feathers come out, the Chanteclers will be obvious and that will leave the Cubalayas as the last 2.
Here's hoping the statistics on sexing are wrong in my case and the likely 1.2 males will be girls
https://picasaweb.google.com/109884716391531581236/Chickens?authkey=Gv1sRgCOCri4bx7sCiVw
I suppose like all first time chicken owners, I am amazed at the capabilities of a 2 day old chick. No momma to tell them to preen, but the Astralorps were already at it. There was a small spider in the tub. They chased it and I didn't see it again so I'm assuming one has already had its first 'treat'.
I'm not allowed to attach pictures, hopefully the link will work. I converted them to B&W. I discovered, as you all know already, that red light is REALLY red in photos! The only one I took with the light off was fuzzier than the chicks.
I've got these figured out:
Astralorps - obvious - black ,
Faveroelles - yellow, 5 toes, a bit smaller than the rest
Ancona - yellow with a lot of black.
Ameraucana - I THINK must be the other yellow ones
Partridge Chanteclers and Blue Red Cubalaya - no clue. The other 4 chicks are yellow with brown but none are closely patterned enough to say 'these two are the same'. I think once their wing feathers come out, the Chanteclers will be obvious and that will leave the Cubalayas as the last 2.
Here's hoping the statistics on sexing are wrong in my case and the likely 1.2 males will be girls
https://picasaweb.google.com/109884716391531581236/Chickens?authkey=Gv1sRgCOCri4bx7sCiVw