Max and his pals

[Natty Bumppo]

Here's a couple of pics of my buckeye chicks. We hatched three and got the others as day olds (born the next dayafter mine) from a gal in Missouri.

The one in the front of the first picture is Max, who I found alive when I was autopsying my eggs to find out what happened. I heard a chirp and opened his shell with my pocketknife, opened his membrane, and he spent his first night in the incubator on on a wet maxipad (thus the name max) partly covered with a wet paper towel. He bled pretty badly and I thought there was no way he was going to survive but he made it. Now he's just a bit smaller than the rest but he's one of the feisty ones.

I've been hand feeding these little guys several times a day, and after only a week I can just hold down my hand and they'll jump aboard and perch on my thumb.

These are my first chickens and they are very friendly.

 

[b.hromada]

So precious! that name sure is cute, and fitting too!

 

[columbiacritter]

My husband is from Ohio and graduate of Ohio state so he wants Buckeyes really bad. Hopefully someday I'll be able to get some for him.

 

[Natty Bumppo]

Columbia, buckeyes are supposed to be very winter hardy, so I'm sure they would do well in Oregon

We had a very frustrating hatch with our shipped eggs. They were very carefully wrapped and shipped promptly, but out of 32 eggs only 5 made it to the point where you could see a developed chick. One died in the shell before it absorbed it's yolk, one died pipping and three survived. That's why I didn't hesitate to extricate max when I heard that faint little chirp.

My wife says now I'm his (her) daddy