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[Cooks]

oh how sweet!

[mrsallen08]

yay! How fantastic! We had the same due date but 2 of ours have hatchede today. We have 1barnevelder and our only fertile silkie hatched too which we were super happy about! I bet you will be very early at school 2moro' heather

[mostin]

Just seen your photos on facebook and they are adorable . So cute, congratulations on your brood chicken daddy .

[Lewis]

Flickr is being a bit wierd, so I've blogged a lot of photos

There is one male, 2 females and one that still hasn't hatched yet

The second batch (Brilley Blues) are due on Friday.

 

Boy at the back, and 2 girls:

Male chick:

[Valkyrie]

Awwwww Love 'em all. So cute and their little yellow/creamy botties.

[Lewis]

I more hatched today

I think its a girl, but it was still a bit wet and hard to tell. So hopefully we have 1 boy and 3 girls

Half the school have been in to see them, and each person came up with loads of names, the usual - dinner, pie, kebab, tikka and the wierdest one Megatron

The Blue leg ring is called Fry, Yellow is called Nugget, Pink is called Purkinje (they were born in Biology! ) and the Orange one is called Pox .

 

A few of todays photos:

-In the brooder

-Purkinje

Us in Biology-

Fry-

[Chickvic]

Lovely pics Lewis

[Cooks]

oh Lewis they are gorgeous!

[Valkyrie]

I still like Fry! One weekend away from school and the other girls and boys will have a huge surprise as to how quickly they grow.

[The Dogmother]

That Fry has character

[Lewis]

I am probably being very dumb, but how can you sex them?!

These are autosexing, so can tell that way. Fry is yellower and lighter than the girls, so he's the boy

 

We had another hatch today, the first Brilley Blue

I'll get some photos on later, and I have a video of the second chick still in the egg

[Lewis]

The chick that was pipping yesterday has hatched out and so has another chick, so now we're up to 7.

I put the 2 older Brilley Blue chicks in the brooder with the others and they seem to be getting on fine. The Brilley Blues are smaller chicks, and they're meant to be autosexing, but I can't see any difference, and I thought they were meant to be blue chicks aswell - I'll find out.

There is another Brilley Blue egg that has pipped and should be out later today or tomorrow .

[Redwing]

Looked at the pic at the top of the page and thought it was of a lot of chicks but it was a reflection

 

Lovely chooks Lewis, are the Briley Blues autosexing as well?

[Lewis]

Lovely chooks Lewis, are the Briley Blues autosexing as well?

Well, they're meant to be

 

The breeders website says:

They do not have a crest like Cream Legbars and can be sexed at hatch by the colour. The pullet chicks are all blue and the cockerel chicks carry cream on the head and shoulders.

And these most definately aren't blue . Maybe they'll start getting darker in a few weeks, as it does say pullet. I've emailed the breeder with a few photos to ask. I know 'Brilley Silvers' exist, which also lay so maybe they're those

[Lewis]

Well the chicks are home and they've already had some visitors .

Everyone at school was sad to see them go, so I'm taking them back into school for Open Evening in September, might take them in the

 

I've uploaded a video of one of the

, and if you look you can see it breathing

 

A few photos:

 

The Brilley Blues are actually Brilley Whites and Brilley Silvers, which will still lay blue eggs, but the silvers are "apricot with blue lacing" and the whites are white .

[Chickvic]

Great pics Gorgeous chicks - never heard of Brilley so it will be interesting to see the pics as they grow. (Hint hint)

[Lewis]

Great pics Gorgeous chicks - never heard of Brilley so it will be interesting to see the pics as they grow. (Hint hint)

Don't worry, you'll soon be bored of them

[atsw]

Wonderful pictures. I'd certainly take the back to school in September when you go back with the chicks. Eglu's are a show stopper in their own right!

 

I love the idea of leg tags. Claret suggested I put chick-rings on my newly hatched Pekins to help tell them all apart. Where did you get yours from please? Are they just rubber bands, or do you need some sort of tool to help put them on?

 

Andrew

[Lewis]

I got mine from The Domestic Fowl Trust and bought a few sizes so I can swap them over as they grow up.

They are plastic, and I don't really like the flat coil ones, prefer the spiral ones, but you just twist them around the chicks leg, so special tool

 

The eglu would be good, and I think we're sectioning off a bit of the classroom for them to run around. We toyed with the idea of setting some eggs a week bfore we go back to school so the chicks would hatch a few days before the open evening as we have plenty of homes for the chicks (and cockerels), but we're leaving it and waiting a few weeks into term.

[Griffin]

Sooooo cute! I like the sound of the Brilley Silvers.

[Lewis]

We're down to 7 chicks

One of the Brilley's has died, I'm not sure why, but I don't think it was eating as it felt thin. There's plenty of food in there, both in the bowl and on the floor so maybe there was something wrong with it internally?

 

Hopefully the others will be ok

[The Dogmother]

That's a shame Lewis, probably just 'natural wastage', as you said, it might have been poorly.

[Lewis]

That's a shame Lewis, probably just 'natural wastage', as you said, it might have been poorly.

Hopefully nothing contagious, I lost the smallest 'runt' quail chick aswell.

 

I'd totally forgotten about vaccinations.

I'd planned to find out how much they cost for such a small number and I asked the vets but they haven't got back to me and it slipped my mind.

[The Dogmother]

I think it's pretty high and some of the vaccines don't come in small quantities.

[Griffin]

My poultry vet quoted me £30 for 100 doses of the Mareks vaccine.