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What a way to end April...three weeks old and Martha's got them on the roost...5' above the ground!

This is LC, "Little Chick". It's just two weeks old. As a one day old it was pecked and left unconscious, then the next day pecked again leaving a gaping wound. It's still smaller than the other chicks but keeps up. The wound closed, but you can still see the mark next to its eye. They're all...

Two weeks old... They got fitted this afternoon with new zip-ties, the ones I attached just over a week ago were getting tight.

I'm going to paraphrase @Sally PB here... "I do not need ducks, I do not need ducks..."

They're growing so fast...

Little Chick ("LC") is between her hatchmate (green leg anklet) and black chick. You can see her scabbed-over head wound just to the right of her eye. She did better today. :love

All five, plus mom. :love Warming up!

An adult attacked LC (Little Chick) again, but I segregated Martha and her babies from the main flock last night, and LC is doing better. I have been giving her scrambled eggs to eat, supplemented with a vitamin E & B electrolyte solution. I am encouraged. This morning, LC on the right:

Thank you. One of the chicks that hatched yesterday is having issues. I found it unconscious in the run with a bloody peck wound on its head. I put it on my chest under my shirt to give it comfort as it passed, but after about 10 minutes it started cheeping and was alert. I gave it back to...

From this morning: :love :love :love

Martha with her brood, four of five showing:

MARTHA THE MAGNIFICENT!!! :love :wee:ya

Looks yellow to me, but he is a Sussex/Dominique cross.

Okay, confirmed: black chick is male. Between the head blotch and his pushy "me first" personality I figured he was a boy.

The three hatched on Eclipse day, not yet named. There's two more eggs that I added when I thought the first three had been left out in the cold too much. It appears that Martha's still been sitting on them, Day 20 today :fl

Mine at 2 months (Martha is second from right) And one year later. ⬆️ (Martha is in the middle, by the feeder) The Speckled Sussex bantams are harder to breed to Standard, harder to find.

All the chicks have yellow legs. I'm confused. Sussex have white legs, Dominiques have yellow legs. :barnie The eggs supposedly came from the Sussex, had blue streaks on their shells from marking the Sussex's vents. Two of the chicks have Sussex coloring, but they have Dominique legs...

Thank you. Yes, she is, and bantam to boot!

More photos here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/fuzzis-chicken-journal.1550586/post-27647902

And then there were TWO!