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Mine will be 6 weeks old on Monday...and I agree, they are cute. They're like a little gang. Blue band took a wild strawberry from my fingers today, first time! Purple band left, blue band front, LC right rear ("Little Chick"). One of my hens, Rahab, had similar black coloring on the neck...

They will go to a local auction when they get feisty. I got $5-10 each last year for six 3-month-old cockerels and another one sold a few weeks later for $30. I don't think they were purchased for soup... bantams aren't very big! But they sure were pretty! (May 2023) The two I kept: Joel...

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Well? The one you mentioned is one of the two sitting on the left side of this photo. :confused:

The chicks are getting SO big... :love Wish I could keep them, but it appears all five are cockerels...

Thanks, but I am fairly certain they're boys. And all of them have yellow shanks, a non-Standard trait for Speckled Sussex, so I don't want to keep any of them for future breeding. Bummer. I have 12 more eggs incubating: 6 under broody Tamar and 6 in an incubator. I'm hoping some will turn out...

The chicks were mixing it up with the hens when I brought tomato bits to the run today. But I think all five are boys :he :barnie

I put zip-ties on the chicks, and refer to them by their zip-tie color until I am sure they're staying. Then I name them.

The Baleful Glares! :gig

Oh, thanks, but I got that information from someone else here, I am a novice at this! :pop

There's a place about an hour's drive from here, where I got my original chicks, but I was hoping to get a cockerel from another source, or even eggs. There aren't a lot of places to choose from, bantam Speckled Sussex are unusual.

The previous roo, Joel, was attentive to the girls, tidbitting them, watching over his girls...but he had a seizure and died in January. He had a good temperament. Samuel never tidbitted the hens.

Thank you. That's so sweet. :hugs I'm actually hoping to introduce a different cockerel to the gene pool as all the Speckled Sussex chicks got the recessive and non-Standard yellow shanks, all were Samuel's. I will still keep any yellow shank pullets for eggs, but not for breeding. I'm not a...

Samuel attacked the chicks twice in my presence, and was most likely the one that attacked a day old chick, two days in a row, leaving it unconscious on the floor of the run, with an open puncture wound behind the eye. I removed him, permanently. And cried.

This evening... Grapes have been consumed, now it's time to scratch and find spilled crumbles. The chicks are checking out some weeds I pulled and offered. And Martha's keeping the other hens on their toes.

Yes. He was the only roo in my flock.

Note to self: don't use styrofoam in the coop. I tried putting the feeder up on a thick styrofoam cooler lid and the flock started eating it!

Thanks! The hiding places were made from raised bed inserts that never worked properly. I have a stash of odds and ends of things like those, items that didn't work out as planned but that l might be able to "repurpose" in the future.

What I did in the coop before "things" hit the fan: ⬆️ Created chick hiding places ⬆️ Moved the feeder, raised it up on a block ⬆️ Made a perch for the chicks

Yes, this is her first brood, and she's doing a great job. She launches herself at any hen that gets close. LC ("Little Chick") sometimes cries when she loses track of Momma Martha, but Martha goes back to where LC can see her and clucks until LC runs over. She's almost tender with her. Samuel...