sebright thread

[Whittni]

I have to golden laced sebrights 6 weeks old and ideas about show quality?

They look really gold so far, that's a good sign.

 

[Whittni]

This is really cute, I'm excited to see how they turn out

I'm so excited my last little silver girl I have left (raccoons are not my friends) hatched three chicks about a week ago. She went broody and hatched them all on her own and she is a wonderful mother. So far the chicks are very healthy and doing great. She is SQ but since my SQ gold roo was eaten by coons along with his 2 gold pullets, the father is a gold/silver split. He's not the best quality, so we'll have to see how they turn out.

 

[CaSebrightFan]

This is really cute, I'm excited to see how they turn out

Me too!

 

[annabell254]

I love sebright babies as well!!!...mine are 3 weeks now and starting to fly!!! I saw one get to 3' high! I cant wait to see if they have good edging and color...the wait is killing me

 

[CaSebrightFan]

2 of the 3 chicks dissapeared today, I think they got ate by a. Gopher snake

 

[dsfrango]

That's sad do u have them out in the coop with a broody? I tried leaving 2 with my silver hen and she was NOT a good mother unfortunately. The first one got a cut above its eye so I put that in the brooder and the next one was pecked so bad the next morning by the others it died I wont leave anymore after that experience....

 

[CaSebrightFan]

They free range with their mother, she has been a great mother so far. I noticed though that the two bigger ones were straying pretty far from her during the day. And then a couple hours later they were gone, not a trace of them.

We have found that if we let them free range with their mother after about a week, we get a much better survival rate. Don't know why, but they do.

 

[FarmGirl01]

Chicks with a mom grow into much healthier chicks, if they can get past the first week.

 

[4hchickmama]

I finally resigned myself to the fact that my Pipsqueak was indeed a boy (when he started crowing at me) and I found him a nice new home.



His new home comes complete with a girlfriend:



Sad to see him go, but he is with one of the project leaders for the girl's 4H group...so we can see him often!

 

[Whittni]

Sorry about the baby chicks!

4hchickmama - Oh, that's so sad! He was really cute.