The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

[loveourbirds]

if they are quail, they aren't pharaoh.

 

[jockeyeba]

She would be due as she hasnt molted yet and shes very young

She should molt this fall.

A lady drove up several days ago with these 10 chicks, she said a friend of ours told her we might take them off her hands. Of course we did. She only had them 3 days, feeding them tamales. She got them from a friend that said her hens laid large brown eggs, thats all I know about what they may be. Any guesses as to what breed or crossbreds?

Those do not look like chickens....

You cracked me up, I'm still laughing I'll try to get some better closeups tomorrow.....

 

[zinia8]

Peafowl chicks

 

[lalaland]

y'all are just getting tired of me trying to figure out what in the blazes the chicks I ended up with are, and I'm just never gonna know, am I? and here I've been holding off and not clogging up the thread wtih pics of all 14 chick s that I'm clueless about.
dagnabbit.

oh well. happy friday all!

 

[loveourbirds]

I just wish I could answer what they were

 

[Eggcessive]

Hi all
Would like to ask for some advice please. I have 17 3 week old chicks who are feathering out really well and are getting huge. I am going to put them outside tomorrow with a new House where they can go for shade as well as a tarpaulin over half the mini run as I want them to be outside on the grass and then I will bring them in at night - would this be ok?

They are basically off heat as we have had very hot temps here lately and I have reduced their heat down as I did not want them to overheat during the day.

I really want them to be out as long as possible as I want to clean their brooder and put it in the sun to disinfect by sunlight.

Is there anything I need to be aware of and watch out for with them being outside? Should I dampen the grass first to help keep them Cool? The temp tomorrow is supposed to get upto 84F or 29C?

Any advice greatly appreciated.

I am not an expert here, but I have found that you need to put the chicks into a new coop for almost a week before letting them outside, so they will know to come back into the coop at bedtime. If you put them in there they will mostly stay on there own, and then after a few days they will peek outside into the run, then a few days later they will get brave enough for the great outdoors.

 

[starlingdaly]

It could be the angle of the pictures but their necks seem shorter than peafowl... I wonder what their noises are like! That could either point to or rule out a peachick since they sound a lot different than other fowl.

 

[delisha]

I posted the picture in another thread and all said turkeys that answered.

 

[delisha]

OK I have video of the brat boy

 

[jockeyeba]

Peafowl chicks

From looking at this picture they're definitely not peafowl. They have really long looking beaks to me but I'm used to AG chicks. I will take some more closer pic's tomorrow