Orpington chicks growing up

[JaeG]

Hi Jae. This is ''Mean'' Mabel. She likes to ''remind'' all those lower in the pecking order of their place in life. Imagine that fatty on your shoulder LOL. Cheers Penny.

Mabel is gorgeous! She's such a round pudding. With only having the bantams and light breeds I forget how big the large breeds are and Mum's chickens always look enormous!

I had a lovely cuddle with Fairy Floss on my knee yesterday afternoon but today she was determined to leap straight onto my shoulder (I was crouched down) and even tried to get on my head. She's such a friendly girl - I'm going to miss her when she goes to live at Mum's.

 

[JaeG]

As promised, here are our new cuties. I was intending to keep one (or two) and sell the others but our daughter is already asking why we can't keep all of them! Here's hoping we win lotto and can move to a farm before they are all grown up!!!

Hope is being a great little Mum. She's not the prettiest chicken but what she lacks in looks she more than makes up for in personality. Despite growing up free range she is super friendly and cuddly and she doesn't mind us helping her with her babies one little bit.


This is our new little Calypso, named after the pullet who died. Hubby tried to say we couldn't name her that - I told him to stop being so superstitious!




This is Dora (the Explorer) who lives up to her name. I had to put her back under Hope quite a few times the first night as she kept wandering off and getting cold.




This is Rainbow (named by our son). She's going to be white so technically he's right as 'white light' splits into the colours of the rainbow. It's better than Mozzarella which was the first suggestion!




And here is Nugget who has a vaulted skull and looks so adorable because of this.

 

[peastix]

Thanks! Mabel thinks she's pretty hot stuff too.Fairy floss sounds like such a cutie.Are all the orps going to your mum's? Those new chicks are so sweet. Can see why the kids want to keep them all!

 

[JaeG]

Thanks! Mabel thinks she's pretty hot stuff too.Fairy floss sounds like such a cutie.Are all the orps going to your mum's? Those new chicks are so sweet. Can see why the kids want to keep them all!

Yes, Mum is moving her two Araucana into another coop with two bantams we hatched her (they are more for my niece and nephew who aren't allowed chickens at their house) so all the big girls can be together. The Araucanas sometimes get a bit bullied by the bigger girls so I think they will be happier. These Silkie babies are so adorable.

 

[peastix]

Yes, Mum is moving her two Araucana into another coop with two bantams we hatched her (they are more for my niece and nephew who aren't allowed chickens at their house) so all the big girls can be together. The Araucanas sometimes get a bit bullied by the bigger girls so I think they will be happier. These Silkie babies are so adorable.

You will miss them! This morning I found mean Mabel and Violet [Lavender Araucana] squished together in 1 nestbox!

 

[JaeG]

You will miss them! This morning I found mean Mabel and Violet [Lavender Araucana] squished together in 1 nestbox!

I will miss them. I'd actually love to keep them and put them to work up the back of our section. Beyond the stormwater culvert is at least 200 sq/m that is thick with wild nasturtiums and wandering Jew, plus it slopes steeply upward so it's very difficult to do any work up there. I'd love them to help us clear it. I can't free range our other ones because of our tiny bantams that would be easily taken out by one of the many cats that live around us.
Maybe I can keep them for awhile. Mum has been working twice as much as she wants to be so she wasn't going to be (maybe) organised enough to take them until the school holidays (she's a teacher).

 

[peastix]

Chickens LOVE wandering jew and nasturtiums.They would be excellent helpers.

 

[kellyjeanne]

I have a tiny little flock (5 little pullets) that I've been hand-rearing in my bathroom since they were a day old - they're rounding the bend on 6 weeks and I'm frantically working on their coop right now...eek. My Buff Orpington (Sesame) is the most tolerant of being handled, and I might say the friendliest, although I think at this point it might still just be tolerance. I have a bunch of silly pictures of her, though, because she is often the first one to come see me.



This is the whole gang at about a day old - sesame is in the water dish.






Too close!








This is my most recent picture of her - she's about 4-5 weeks old in this one. I haven't been hanging out with them as much the past week or so because I've been trying to get as much done on the coop as possible! Hopefully they appreciate it!

 

[kellyjeanne]

. (double post, sorry)

 

[JaeG]

I have a tiny little flock (5 little pullets) that I've been hand-rearing in my bathroom since they were a day old - they're rounding the bend on 6 weeks and I'm frantically working on their coop right now...eek. My Buff Orpington (Sesame) is the most tolerant of being handled, and I might say the friendliest, although I think at this point it might still just be tolerance. I have a bunch of silly pictures of her, though, because she is often the first one to come see me.



This is the whole gang at about a day old - sesame is in the water dish.






Too close!








This is my most recent picture of her - she's about 4-5 weeks old in this one. I haven't been hanging out with them as much the past week or so because I've been trying to get as much done on the coop as possible! Hopefully they appreciate it!

Sesame is adorable, as are your other cuties. Thanks for sharing. It always amazes me how fast they grow. I have to say I was glad to get mine outside. I have bantams inside at the moment and they make next to no mess compared to the big chicks. Good luck getting your coop completed. They will love it, I'm sure.

You can't delete posts but you can edit them. There's a pencil next to the red flag at the bottom of your post. Click on the pencil and edit away. I think you still have to leave something in there and some people just put a period mark.