Update 29/07/09: 6 weeks old (p. 3)

[Lotje]

Awwww they're really so darn cute, I could watch them forever!

The frizzles clearly develop fastest, while the "normal feathered one" is slowest developing.

White frizzle (?) Cochin bantam chick

Lavender Cochin bantam chick

Splash (yay!

) frizzle (?) Cochin bantam chick

no-idea-what-colour frizzle (definitely!) Cochin bantam chick

Mommy headshot, she's doing a great job!

 

[Lotje]

Since yesterday, they're two weeks old so I had to take some pictures (you know, for the logbook

). Due to the heat (38°C!) I wasn't really in the mood for it and neither where the chicks, they're so scared of me. I'm not happy about the pictures but they'll have to do.

I'm noticing a very big difference between our different little flocks. My other hens are much tamer and passed it on to their children. This one on the opposite has always been very wild, scared of people and so are her chicks. I'll be glad when she stops playing mommy..

so I can finally get these babies tame!

Funny how the frizzles develop so much faster! I'm hoping the splash or the lavender chick is a girl..

I'd really love to keep one or both of them.

 

[Lotje]

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You don't have to agree of course, every chicken mommy believes her chicks are the cutest..

They turned three weeks old today, time for an update! I know I've said it before, but them frizzles develop so much faster than non-frizzles! Really remarkable.

I'm afraid the lavender chick is a roo... he already has a red comb and is only three weeks old!

Oh well, I'll just keep praying for the splash chick..

Check-out those cute white feathers on her/his back.

Mommy with her kiddies

Food!

And food again..

Ballet-chickie

Yes you my little roo!

Strike a pose

This one has been rolling in the mud

This is one of our other "litters", thought they deserved a little spot here too since they turned five weeks also today.

No. 1

No. 2

Two roosters I'm afraid..

 

[Lotje]

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Well thank you! They're made with a Canon EOS 400D (in America this model has a different name: Rebel XTi) and with a 50mm f1.8 lens. That's a standard lens, doesn't zoom in or out and it's practically the same distance from your object as looking at that object with your bare eyes. Which means I have to get REALLY close to make a shot..

But it's a fast, low-light lens with beautiful colours and sharp results, I love it! Oh, I almost forgot to mention that it's really cheap! I'd highly recommend it.

En natuurlijk spreek ik Nederlands!

(I just said I - of course - speak dutch

) It's my mother language.

 

[Tsagirl]

Those are the cutest chicks and GREAT photos!!!

You must be a professional, I can never get my camera to even stay still when I take pics of my birds. lOL!

Enjoy those babies!

 

[emvickrey]

I have what looks like a Lavender Splash Cochin Bantam. It is just so cuge. All fluffy. It's tail feathers looks like a bunny tail and it had a mohawk but now has feathers growing in that are a darker lavender. Three are spots of darker lavender feathers coming in around its neck. It is just sooooo cute. I wish I had a pic to show you. I really need to get a recent pic of that one.

How do you tell a pullet from a roo in bantams? I have 3 all together that are around 3 and 4 weeks old. I can usually tell with the bigger chickens by this time but I have no idea with these guys. None of them have much of a comb and what is there isn't red.

 

[Lotje]

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Just an amateur, but thanks!

If you have a compact camera, I'd suggest you to raise your ISO, your pictures will no longer be blurry. Don't put it too high though, that will create "noise" (speckles on your pictures).

Off topic: We've got a Dalmatian too, they're just the greatest dogs...

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Yes, you do need to get a pic of that one!!!

I'm very curious!

With my other chicks I pretty much knew their genders at 4 weeks, those little things under their beak (how do you call them in English?) started to show some redness. By now I'm very sure I've go 2 boys and 2 girls, the difference is very noticeable. They're turning six weeks old this Saturday.

 

[emvickrey]

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Just an amateur, but thanks!

If you have a compact camera, I'd suggest you to raise your ISO, your pictures will no longer be blurry. Don't put it too high though, that will create "noise" (speckles on your pictures).

Off topic: We've got a Dalmatian too, they're just the greatest dogs...

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Yes, you do need to get a pic of that one!!!

I'm very curious!

With my other chicks I pretty much knew their genders at 4 weeks, those little things under their beak (how do you call them in English?) started to show some redness. By now I'm very sure I've go 2 boys and 2 girls, the difference is very noticeable. They're turning six weeks old this Saturday.

That thing under their beak is called a waddle. Mine don't have any. I have a pic of when it was a week old but the feathers wheren't in yet and the pic ins't very good. I'll post it in a minute, I have to go to photobucket and get it and my intenet is slow.

 

[emvickrey]

I found it, it's the little one of course.

See the fluffy tail? is is even fluffier now and the whole chick is just fluffy. That may be what it's name is. I'll try to get a pic today.

 

[catwalk]

You have the cutest little chicks!

I'm giggling the entire time I'm scrolling through your pictures.
I do hope you get them tame, because you know that dip in your shoulder between your clavicle and neck muscle? God put them there for cute little chicks like yours to sit in and peep!