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Boppo said:
Glad to meet you and welcome to BYC. I am so sorry for your loss. You have beautiful chicks who look like they will grow into a colorful and fun flock.

Here are my favorite beginning articles that helped me as a newbie. I hope you will find them helpful as well. All articles are short, have illustrations, and reviews, which are often worth looking at for the comments.

1. Intro to chicken keeping

2. Common mistakes & how to fix them

3. Ventilation (important to chicken health), with helpful links to coop designs organized by climate (because what is just right for my New England hens won't work for my brother's Arizona chickens)

3(a). Farmers Almanac on Building Coops (Includes size requirements!) Allowing plenty of space for chickens is really important because, even as chicks, they will start pecking each other or plucking their own feathers, or become unhealthy if they are overcrowded. Here is a link to Colorado State Extension's publication on space and temperature requirements for chicks as they age.

4. Predator protection for new & existing coops
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Happy to meet you as well and thank you for complimenting my new babies and your condolences. I so appreciate those articles as I'm learning as I go!
 
DobieLover said:
Hello and welcome to BYC! :frow Glad you joined.

I'm very sorry for your loss.
I would wait until the chicks are fully feathered, around 6 weeks old, and then post new pictures for a better chance at an accurate ID.

I really hope those two yellow chicks are not Cornish crosses. They are meat birds designed to grow at an astronomical rate and they do not live long. TSC is notorious for mixing up chicks.
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Oh no, I hope not! They aren't growing very fast thus far so fingers crossed! My black (I think she is a sexlink) Penelope is growing like a weed on the other hand. She was biggest to start. Stevie (larger yellow) and Moira are getting close but still not as big as she is. And Theresa (tiny yellow) and Elvis are still so tiny, they are growing but not too fast yet. Hoping that means they aren't, I don't know when the astronomical growth would kick in but so far they're going at the same place as their similar sized peers!
 
Starlyt1221 said:
Oh no, I hope not! They aren't growing very fast thus far so fingers crossed! My black (I think she is a sexlink) Penelope is growing like a weed on the other hand. She was biggest to start. Stevie (larger yellow) and Moira are getting close but still not as big as she is. And Theresa (tiny yellow) and Elvis are still so tiny, they are growing but not too fast yet. Hoping that means they aren't, I don't know when the astronomical growth would kick in but so far they're going at the same place as their similar sized peers!
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If they haven't burst into extreme growth, they're probably white Leghorns. That's good.
 

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