New Babies!!!

[Rachel'sFlock]

Here are our new babies!
There are 15 Buff Orps, 8 Black Australorps and 3 Red Turkeys, all born Monday.

They are all very spry and busy and seem very healthy. They came to us from Dunlap Hatchery in Idaho.
We did have some interesting chicken math happen, tho.
We ordered 12 BO pullets, and 1 roo, 7 straight run BAs and 5 Red Turkeys.
We got 4 turkeys, (but one didn't make it. We were credited), 15 BOs (no telling if the extras are pullets or roos) and 8 BAs. Or so I'm told.
7 of the BAs look pretty much identical, both to each other, and the 6 I got last year. But one of them has the whitish yellow coloring on it's head, and I am wondering if it is, indeed a BA???

Including pics; maybe some BA experts can have a peek at these peeps and sort us out???

The way all our BAs look

The way this extra friend looks

Any thoughts?

Having a fine time reading everyone's posts and seeing pics of their new babies, too!
Happy Spring!

 

[ramhatch]

Several of my BA looked like that. So id say yes it is a BA.
BTW thats a good lookin batch o chicks you got.

 

[Rachel'sFlock]

Thanks, ramhatch!
I hope s/he turns out to be a BA. I absolutely love them

 

[Momagain1]

awww..they are so tiny compared to mymonsters now lol...

 

[Rachel'sFlock]

Tell me about it, Momagain1! My "babies" (first time flock) are 10 months old.
I lovingly refer to them as my Amazon Women.
These little puff-balls are almost too tiny to be real! Our first girls came to us at a week old, already, so I never saw them this small!
Too, too cute!

 

[Caddy-Corner-Chick]

wow look at all your cuties...

I also have quite a few BA's in my batch right now. My chicken math was 8-5=3 + 25 -2=23 + 11= 36 chickens

How are you liking using the pine shavings?
I had some left over aspen I tried instead of paper towels and thought it smelled horrible so pulled it all out and laid down paper towels again... That is getting expensive though.

 

[Rachel'sFlock]

Caddy-Corner-Chick, I have used the pine twice, now, and I love it for the peeps. I do prefer straw for the big girls, tho.
I did change it often, as their brooder, last time, was in an aquarium on my dining room table, so I didn't allow it to smell-up at all.
Paper towels would be expensive I bet! I haven't tried that.
Best of luck with your brood!

 

[Caddy-Corner-Chick]

Exactly... My brooder in my dining room... Did you have to change it out daily to fight the stinks ?

 

[Rachel'sFlock]

@ CCC: No, I didn't. I kept the fluff deep, and skimmed off the top layers. But I did empty it out, entirely, about once a week, and replace all the fluff.
I just kept a plastic bucket handy for flinging bits of gross, wet, whatever fluff into, as well as for emptying the whole thing into, when I replaced it all.
I loooove the smell of the pine shavings, too.

 

[Caddy-Corner-Chick]

Thanks, tomorrow I will need to go to Kmart for the soft fluffy pine shavings.