Redinator's First Hatch-Along

[Slothinc]

Just my notes: Snickers, Cookie and Kit Kat have feathered legs, Reese has naked legs . . .

Can anyone tell comb type yet? Pot and the two boys have straight combs, Sweety has a pea comb.

To me, Reese and Cookie look straight, and Snickers and KitKat do not. Which means that Sweety carries one copy of the recessive straight comb gene. *this is based on what I could see from the pics, head on pics showing the comb more clearly might help a bit more*

 

[redinator]

To me, Reese and Cookie look straight, and Snickers and KitKat do not. Which means that Sweety carries one copy of the recessive straight comb gene. *this is based on what I could see from the pics, head on pics showing the comb more clearly might help a bit more*

More pictures . . .these poor babies, lol. They're taking a nap it took me a bit to give up on the zipties idea.

 

[jxp]

The smallest leg bands I could find won't stay on I have some zip ties, but they're all the same color, lol. I guess they'll be known as 'the quads' until the leg bands fit

So they all have rooster combs?

 

[jxp]

Right leg / left leg / both legs / no zip tie will let you tell four chicks apart without needing different colours.

When my Elly had a litter of 5 girls and 5 boys, those silly colored Velcro bands got lost often. We eventually used nail polish. blue for boys, pink for girls. Oldest got one nail painted, second got two, etc . Even at 6 weeks at the first vet visit, the nail polish came in handy to knowing who got weighed and vaccinated.

Chickens have nails. Just saying.

 

[kattabelly]

Chickens have nails. Just saying.

I've thought about doing that in the past but the only nail varnish I have to hand is shiny metallic stuff that makes the older birds bite when I wear it, and new chicks already go through that toe biting phase...

 

[jxp]

I've thought about doing that in the past but the only nail varnish I have to hand is shiny metallic stuff that makes the older birds bite when I wear it, and new chicks already go through that toe biting phase...

They bite their own toes?

 

[kattabelly]

They bite their own toes?

And each other's! I mean, they peck at everything at that age just to see if it's food, but mine always go after toes so enthusiastically that I think they must think they're worms or something.

They usually work it out after a day or two but it's something I'd be slightly wary of encouraging, especially if I had chicks that were pecking each other a lot already.