The Obscession Grows - My Second Batch of Chicks

[wings]

Wonderful pictures!!! KEEP THEM COMING!!!

 

[ILoveJoe]

Update on the chicks:

Going into their 6th week of life they are all feathered out and looking like miniature chickens. Out of the original 30 I only lost the one small EE.
I added 4 more from the same hatch and same breeds from Ms Lewis Rich and they all got along with no mishaps, I now have 33 chicks and 18 big chickens.

I moved them out of the house on the 16th and into the coop under a light and with cardboard walls. Sunday the light went off, the wall came partially down and everyone enjoyed their first day in the great outdoors. Okay not everyone, some were "chickens" and huddled in the back and came flying out kamikaze style, only to rush back in to the safety of the coop.

The sun mesmerized them and they soon were falling over left and right in blissful sun worship.

Speckled Sussex:

Plymouth Rock (can anyone say ROO?!)

Same thing with a Black Australorp:

Ahhhh the sun:

They'll jump up and spar:

Another possible roo, one of the EE's:

 

[PQ4evr]

The babies are to cute.

 

[Ms. Lewis Rich]

They look so content.
They sure have grown.
Did you ever figure out who the Mother of the mystery chick was?

 

[ILoveJoe]

Ms. Lewis Rich :

They look so content.
They sure have grown.
Did you ever figure out who the Mother of the mystery chick was?

Some of these chickens tricked me when I was marking their eggs. It turned out that from Hoss's babies their were 2 SLW, 1 LB, 1 BR, 1 BO, 2 BA and 2 EE's. The one EE 4th photo from the bottom, doesn't have very prominent green legs and I kept thinking it was a GLW. But I didn't apparantly get one of their eggs. Tricky hens.