Oh The Cuteness! The Unbearable Cuteness!
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My brain almost cannot handle the adorableness of three-day-old baby chicks.
I believe that this little penguin is our Silver Cuckoo Marans. She'll lay dark brown eggs. We set a fluffy feather duster in the brooder box, as a sort of fake mommy, and this little girl seems to enjoy that the most of the other chicks. We often find her snuggling in the feathers. She seems to be a bit of a loner.
We think this chick might be one of our Easter Eggers. She's usually in the middle of the flock.
This is our largest chick. We think that she's the Silver Laced Wyandotte, our glamor chicken.
There's quite a size discrepancy between the chicks. Our smallest chicken is also our feistiest. She's generally running around like a maniac, and is the one most likely to be pecking another chicken. She's a little spitfire. Three days old, and she's already trying to rule the roost.
Chicken owners, do you agree with our identifications?
My brain almost cannot handle the adorableness of three-day-old baby chicks.
I believe that this little penguin is our Silver Cuckoo Marans. She'll lay dark brown eggs. We set a fluffy feather duster in the brooder box, as a sort of fake mommy, and this little girl seems to enjoy that the most of the other chicks. We often find her snuggling in the feathers. She seems to be a bit of a loner.
We think this chick might be one of our Easter Eggers. She's usually in the middle of the flock.
This is our largest chick. We think that she's the Silver Laced Wyandotte, our glamor chicken.
There's quite a size discrepancy between the chicks. Our smallest chicken is also our feistiest. She's generally running around like a maniac, and is the one most likely to be pecking another chicken. She's a little spitfire. Three days old, and she's already trying to rule the roost.
Chicken owners, do you agree with our identifications?
Comments
The first chick is one of your Easter Eggers, the second is your Cuckoo Marans, I actually think the third pictured is your Wyandotte. It doesn't look Silver Laced though, but Gold Laced. The last picture looks like 2 little Easter Eggers, the tiny one might be a bantam.
You're going to love watching these wee ones grow, it truly becomes an addiction. Before you know it you'll be buying an incubator and ordering hatching eggs!
I'll have pure English Orpington hatching eggs available this year... he he he. :)
Not good with chick id but you've picked some nice breeds - they should be fine as they grow up together.
When I reared Cheep the only chick last summer I put a stone hot water bottle wrapped in a t-shirt inside a furry lined parka hood as a sort of surrogate hen. Shame cheep turned out to be a boy! I now have a rooster that thinks I'm 'mum' and wants to sit on my shoulder!
Enjoy your sweet chicks - they'll look different next week.
Celia
http://www.brooklynfeed.com/2011/10/introducing-new-chickens-to-a-flock/
And you can see what she looks like older. Take a zillion photos. They lose their fluff in less than 2 weeks. It's pretty amazing to watch the progression of the pin feathers. You see them on their wing tips already.
Bandaid
Kansas chick stuckin ohio
I had my first chicken when I did a project in college on imprinting & hatched the eggs, hatching the last to imprint on me. He was great. And just how a cat knows she should sit on a book if you're reading, CSCBT (chicks name-can't translate here lol)would park himself on my book as I stretched out on a lounge in the yard. When my kids were young I decided they'd learn about it by doing it so we got an incubator, ordered the eggs & they did the turning & counting days & I made a box so when they started to hatch I'd put the little one in the box as it hatched & DS or DD would be the only thing it would see when it came out of its shell. They loved it & every evening, around the gloaming, they'd all parade back into the pen my DH made. We put up a regular shed & he built out a long area with wire & wood & a door so they could still be outside if they wanted to but would be safe from night animals that could hurt them. Nothing could get to those guinea hens though. They let me know when the mail was delivered, if someone came to our back gate, parked in our driveway & scared the guy who cut the lawn back then so badly with their screaming when he went to the back gate that he came in to ask me what was back there. He couldn't believe it was a bunch of guinea hens!
You're going to have the best time. I'm so excited for you guys. I love their new home, it's beautiful!
And how are your 4-legged friends taking to the new additions?? Our dogs loved them & the chicks seemed to like following them around. The poodle started herding them when she thought they were going somewhere they shouldn't. I'm thinking cats won't quite feel the same...