So I'm adding another breed to my mixed heritage flock - Speckled Sussex! I picked up these six chicks at Tractor Supply a few weeks ago, to be buddies with two rescue chicks from a neighbor.
She's new to chickens, and when one of her 2-day-old chicks fell in the water dish, it almost died. She had NO heat source whatsoever for her new chicks, poults and ducklings - and didn't know what to do. So I helped her get the brooder set up properly, and she convinced me to try to save her little wet gray chick, and gave me one more red one to keep it company. I worried that if the gray one died, the red one would then be alone - so off to TSC I went to get more buddies.
I came home with these, at 2 days old. They're now 6-1/2 weeks:
Her little wet gray one recovered just fine. I have no clue what breed the two rescue chicks are. When I asked my neighbor, she said they were "straight run." Well okay then. They are about the same age as my Sussex. (Neither are a Sussex, as TSC hadn't put them out yet when my neighbor got hers.) I know it's way early, but any ideas yet?
She's new to chickens, and when one of her 2-day-old chicks fell in the water dish, it almost died. She had NO heat source whatsoever for her new chicks, poults and ducklings - and didn't know what to do. So I helped her get the brooder set up properly, and she convinced me to try to save her little wet gray chick, and gave me one more red one to keep it company. I worried that if the gray one died, the red one would then be alone - so off to TSC I went to get more buddies.
I came home with these, at 2 days old. They're now 6-1/2 weeks:
Her little wet gray one recovered just fine. I have no clue what breed the two rescue chicks are. When I asked my neighbor, she said they were "straight run." Well okay then. They are about the same age as my Sussex. (Neither are a Sussex, as TSC hadn't put them out yet when my neighbor got hers.) I know it's way early, but any ideas yet?
