My baby chicks

[lyndatu]

Hello! Here are some pictures of my 5 baby chicks in the brooder. We were going to buy females, but the chicks in the store are not sexed yet. Oh, and sorry for the blurry and dodgy photos...........

..............we're only using a camera phone....we lost our old camera. Here they are:

At the store:

Get us out of here!

Have you come to rescue us?

At home:

I can't wait to see the brooder!

At the brooder:

They still won't use the roost.............I wonder why?

Open wide....

Look everybody! What's this? White worms?

 

[IHeartChickens]

I can't see/find the pics

 

[lyndatu]

Oh! Sorry IHeartChickens! I accidentally pressed the enter button before posting the pics!

Sorry!

 

[kstaven]

Chicks look great, congratulations. Chicks in the store look a little crammed for space.

If that is grit and shell I am seeing in the cardboard container it needs to be ground finer. A little too heavy for chicks.

 

[Katy]

Is that rice in a couple of the pictures? I was always told you shouldn't feed rice to any kind of bird.

 

[kstaven]

Cooked rice is fine for all birds. Uncooked will swell in the digestive system and cause an impaction.

 

[lyndatu]

More pics:

Hey! Don't touch me!

Here's my favorite chick: Sleepyhead!(not his/her permanent name; we'll name them as soon as we find out their gender)

Waking her up isn't the best idea......

Sleepyhead and this yellow chick are inseperable!

We cover up the whole brooder at night.

The chick says hi to BYC.com. Hi!

My chicken coop. All we have to do is to clean it up a bit and paint. Yeah, I know.......it's looks ugly......but functional. Your chicken coops are unbeatable!

Here's my camera:

Unfortunately we don't know the breeds of the chicks....any help would be appreciated! Oh and the gender, if you can identify it, thanks! They're 3 days old, by the way. Thanks for to your replies!

 

[lyndatu]

Don't worry: They didn't eat the rice: I just put them there for display for the camera. When they tried to eat them, I'd touch their backs and they will run away.

Oh and that grit: That was actually the sandbox, but we didn't have sand so I put some soil in the box. They don't play on it, just peck, peck, peck....(and scratch)

 

[kstaven]

It was hard to tell in the photo if it was shell and grit or not.

Your coop is just fine. Climate makes a big difference on how they are constructed.

2 or 3 weeks from now will be better for breed suggestions and sexing. By then we will be able to see the feather color.