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I’ll start a new thread in seeing & ageing with more pic of the others. They were ‘supposed’ to have been born March 30th but my partner is adamant they are older than a week

He is a RIR. All 27 of my babies are RIRs

This is one of the little guys, I believe a Roo which is why he has a straw on his leg 🤪

IF I have sexed them right, I feather sexed them, I have 5 Roos which is actually 2 more than we ordered I think & leaves 22 hens. When we placed our order we did approximate a 10:1 ratio, with one Roo having 11, but it seems our math has now been made moot lol. My partner & I were just...

The hatchery sent us 2 extra chicks. 1 more male & 1 more female, so we have 27 birds. They were to have had a hatch date of March 30th to be a day old when we received them March 31st, however, their feathers seem to tell us they are older. Regardless, we are happy with our little brood & are...

Bittersweet day March 31st, we lost the battle with my one and only first hatching chick but received all these beauties to:

I know what you feel :)

March 23rd, 2020 - March 31st, 2020 “We fought so hard together, I’m sorry I couldn’t keep you until your brothers and sisters came”.

thank you for sharing that amazing story!! 🥰🥰 I am so glad Sirius made it!! Gives me hope my little one will to 😊

I do hope so. I have just noticed that her underbelly is all nice & very fluffy now after her little bath 🙂 it wasn’t looking so good before hand so I do hope it wasn’t a bad call as I know getting cold is a disaster for chickie-babies. But that was about 3 hrs ago now so & I just watched her...

yes & I cannot wait!! I hope it’s first thing in the morning!! 🙃 She is cooing; is this a good sign? My partner describes it as the chirp they make while under mamma.... I just don’t want it to be a “I’m wasting away” kinda purring chirp...

Little update: chickie-baby, or Raven lol, is still not eating on her own 😕 this morning she was so weak looking it broke my heart 💔😪 I’ve been cleaning her butt a lot as it seems she’s got that pasty butt thing but this morning she needed a bath, mostly because it was dry & I didn’t want to do...

he also looks like a black copper maran.... His/her (I think it’s a girl now) comb isn’t as well pronounced as the sex link pic but more subdued like the maran. And I believe she has the little lines under eyes to... is it to soon to tell breed? (You made me look up chick pics 😂)

Americanas or “Brown layers”. The way it was written in their ad it sounded like they were selling brown laying Americanas, Americauna with blue eggs & Easter Eggers. So I asked for the brown laying americanas not realizing they weren’t the same thing until after I got home & saw the eggs...

he seems ok. Still having loneliness behaviour 😕. He will drink when I tap on his water but still won’t eat, that I’ve seen. Every once in a while we’ll see him peck at the food but not as often as I’d like. I think he may have a bad eye to boot 😖 ideas on breed?

Rhode Island Reds. We’ll have a couple cockerels and a few pulllets available. 🙂

welcome!

Unfortunately this was my first go at starting a flock, so there is only the little one 😕 we do what we can to talk to him, hold him, cuddle him, & show him how to eat & drink. I know Tuesday is far but I’m not giving up on what a little bit of human cuddles can do, my 18 month old gets pretty...