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[newmarch2014]

With the EE's it does not matter what they look like as new chicks, they change so drastically from that to feathered...sometimes a couple changes even. Mine look NOTHING like I would have guessed. I am a biosecurity freak and am not up to a month of quarantine after just integrating my newbies but they should be easy enough to rehome if they are pullets and not cockerels.

 

[eggsbert]

We'll just have to wait and see on their color and sex then. My sister really wants a blue hen, it'll be her luck one will get in blue adult feathers and then be a rooster.

All right, it's been nice chatting but we've got to make a supply run for our dogs.

 

[newmarch2014]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...d-tricks-pictures-included/8890#post_15289139

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

We'll just have to wait and see on their color and sex then. My sister really wants a blue hen, it'll be her luck one will get in blue adult feathers and then be a rooster.

All right, it's been nice chatting but we've got to make a supply run for our dogs.

I am usually hatching blue EE chicks. Well, they are Olive Egger EE's anyway. Most are blue these days, some blacks and splash. If she decides she wants any blues! For the next month or so they should be around, then I always have hatching eggs for $30/a dozen plus (more like 20 )

 

[Cynthia12]

I am usually hatching blue EE chicks. Well, they are Olive Egger EE's anyway. Most are blue these days, some blacks and splash. If she decides she wants any blues! For the next month or so they should be around, then I always have hatching eggs for $30/a dozen plus (more like 20

)

Wanting some of your eggs, and, would really love to have a splash pullet/baby. 20 eggs? A lot wold be going up for sale after I got my picks!

 

[Cynthia12]

This is one of the new Marans I got. I'm pretty sure it's a roo. His comb is twice the size of the other 3 I got. Bev Davis Wade Jeane line.

Nice little, sweet faced cockerel.

 

[Cynthia12]

Hello, new here to BYC as well as to chickens in general. Thought I'd introduce myself (and I guess the household in general) since I'm sure I'll have many questions in the weeks to come (I've already collected a few).

Our neighbors have had chickens for several years now and after several years of chicken and egg envy, we finally decided to buy a coop and chicks this year. Our coop is currently a work in progress and, as far as chicks go, we have at least 8 too many! To be fair, we were told they were all straight run and we got 3-4 of each breed so we'd get a hen (which still isn't a guarantee).

Our little babies are in the house in a brooder they seem to be quickly outgrowing (we only got them Friday!). We have 4 Black Australorps (I'm suspicious they're actually all pullets since we got them from Cal Ranch and they rang up as pullets), 4 Bantam EEs, 3 Bantam Frizzles (possibly Cochins), and a Barred Rock/Frizzle mix (I drove all the way down to Spanish Fork for this one so hopefully its a lady). Everyone is about 3-4 weeks old, except the EEs which are only about a week.

In the end we'll need to narrow down our brood of 12 to just 4 chicks, one of each kind. We're anxiously waiting to see who in our brood might be roosters, since our city doesn't allow them. I swear I check on them at least 5 times a day, each time thinking 'is somebody in here looking/acting like a rooster?!'

(Speaking of, I'm just going to post this because I hear an EE chirping really loud. I need to check on those babies.)

Welcome! Where do you live. You came to Spanish Fork and didn't stop by? I had a pullet chick I could have given you. Just a mix, but has a cute little woodpecker top, green green legs. Brian is taking her now. She is going to be soo cute.
lol...keeping an eye on chicks. We all know how that goes.
I just saw those Australorps in Cal Ranch. They should all be pullets. Bantams, are sold as straight run. EE's, love them!

 

[Cynthia12]

Photo overload..got some of my EE rooster. And, of my OE that should start laying anytime now. Can't wait to see what she gives me.

A rooster that has crowed, but not since. hmmm?







Here's my little Partridge Silkie, a sweetheart, of course. Pin feathers still coming in.
Waiting on an egg..any day now.



Time to get the rake out. With us being sick, and all of the rain, it's been neglected. :/
This silkie is one of the smallest I've ever had, she's tiny.

 

[lizardandchicks]

Well, I've had my first progression death

it was one of my RIR x sf mix. It had a very good start too! But after not moving for a couple hours with that good of progress, I got concerned. It wasnt moving anymore, even being able to see feathers in there, i couldnt see breathing. Resisting the urge to help, I left it. Well, this morning there was no movement so I grabbed it out, and started breaking the shell, it had died, as I expected

I am so sorry! That must not be fun to go through. I hope the rest of your chicks do well. speaking of, congratulations on your chicks!

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

Wanting some of your eggs, and, would really love to have a splash pullet/baby.   20 eggs?   A lot wold be going up for sale after I got my picks! 

Yes, I have to sell lots of extras with the OE, to make up for a few infertiles. The SG/SIlkie eggs--no prob they don't have many infertiles.