I have four 8 week old straight run bantams. I think I've figured out three of the four, but I'd like to have the 'experts' take a look at my newest additions to our flock. Please give your great expertise of the breed and sex of the new chicks. Thank you so much!!!
1) Partridge colored...
One of my silkie hens has decided to sit on some eggs. One of the problems is that she sat on one at a time. Now we have 8 under her. Today I candled them all and, as expected, they are all at various stages of development.
One seems to be at 13 days according to the candling and one really...
This is our first hatch. Last night the first silkie hatched out of our 9 in lock-down. So far we have 6 hatched. Five black and one white. Don't know about the other three yet. It's day 22 now.
Hi all. We acquired our six pullets at three weeks of age. That was 5 weeks ago. They've graduated to their new outside run and coop a couple weeks ago and seem to be thriving.
I'm glad to find this forum to help with all the 'new parent' jitters.