Supermarket Chick Questions

[lomine]

Thanks everyone I recommend trying it if you can, very exciting when it works!


Skunks!!? How sad I think all I will have to worry about is the neighbours cat and the odd fox around where I live!

To be honest I’m half hoping for 1 male and 1 female, just so I have a great excuse to try hatching some more fluff balls

Yeah, I missed a spot and the skunks dug in. I think it was a mother and babies because they got my whole flock of breeders, over a dozen birds, in one night. As far as predators go, I guess I could be dealing with worse. At least I don't have the big ones like coyotes, mountain lions, or bears.

 

[fificlaire]

Picture update on my two little babies!!! They are now about 16 days old.
To my very inexperienced eye the brown wild type one (named Pickle) has a speckled breast so i’m guessing she is female? But Tiny, the other one, I’m unsure about due to the goldy yellowy colouring. I’m guessing I won’t be able to tell till later? Anyone have any idea?
They’re such characters I love them!!

 

[CCUK]

Definitely 1 female. So that's good. Not sure with the other. You can probably vent sex it in about another 2 weeks. Unless it starts calling by then!!

 

[fificlaire]

I’ll keep an ear out for that! Though not sure I’d realise even if I heard them lol they chirp very loudly to each other if one disappears for even a second

 

[CCUK]

They have a very distinct crow. I can't really describe it. Sounds nothing like a chicken. When they first start it sounds like they have a mouth full of water at the same time!

 

[lomine]

It looks like two females to me but they are a bit young.

 

[cottontail farm]

Thanks for posting a recent picture. The little cinnamon colored one ia beautiful! It looks like it caught up in size to it's sibling.
I love the sound of a coturnix crow., it is very unique
The first time mine crowed I looled around like "what the heck was THAT?" It's more like a wild bird warble.

 

[CCUK]

It's not the one that sounds like a chicken cockeral!