They do very wildly. My first order from Meyer’s had a GQ and she looked like a RIR with muffs and beard. I like her so much I included another GQ with this years order and my meal maker will bring me up to three. For the two I got this year, one is a mostly black chick with clean legs, the...
I went back thru my pics and it didnt look like the brown leghorns starting showing white earlobes until they were much closer to point of lay. Maybe close to 13-14 weeks old or so
She almost looks like she has puffy cheeks? My Meyer order on 10/14 had a Green Queen for the meal maker, and it seems they've been using that breed for a lot of meal makers lately.
Snapped a handful of pics as they are getting pretty big now. I’ll be taking the heat plate out this weekend and blocking off the communal nest box. Already I’ve seen at least River up chilling in the communal box and I don’t want to have to clean baby cecal poops out of it.
When the mealworm...
This chick is 5 weeks old and is supposed to be a Welsummer pullet. I had brown leghorns with my last batch of chicks and at this stage I honestly can’t tell the difference.
Do I have to wait and see if she gets white earlobes? Or is there another way to tell?
My first couple batches of chicks were spring hatches so they were feathering up as the weather was warming up. That made it a no brainer on when to remove the heat plate.
This years batch was hatched Oct 14th...so 5 weeks old tomorrow. Their tiny 12" x 12" heat plate worked fine for the first...
Not me over here with THREE cameras set up to check on the chicks I have brooding out in the coop. Nope. Not me. Not checking the cameras every few minutes. Nope nope nope.
Mine like to sunbathe in the sunlight from their window to warm up. I think it’s cutest thing ever. Pic brought to you by...
I have a 16" x 16" plate coming. Hopefully big enough.
Mean time, the chicks are feathering out nicely. The stage some of them are in tho cracks me up.
The remaining chick down on their heads is like a mullet or old bald man fringe. Plus tiny heads on big fluffy feathered bodies.
Have to figure out how to fit a bigger one in the space I have. The plate in there is 12”x12”.
I could maybe take a wire cutter and cut a portion of the right side wall of the crate out.
Chicks are four weeks old.
It’s only getting colder.
They are no longer reliably fitting under the heat plate I have. They do the musical sleeping spot shuffle all night long with chicks getting shoved out from under the plate then the ousted one buries her way back into the pile under the...
If they have access to the outside of that coop, you may find them roosting on the roof of the coop.
As everyone before has said, most chickens are going to go for the highest flattish point they can access. Coop roof. Deck railing, lawn tractor hood, etc.
This was the night before my first...