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[Minnie&Moose]

Here are Magda's 5 chicks, who hatched just over 3 weeks ago - they don't look anything like these pictures now!

 

Here they are a couple of days after they arrived

 

 

And here they are a week later when we moved them to the eglu

Edited July 14, 2014 by Guest

[atsw]

Very cute - Please add more pictures as they grow up.

 

Andrew

[Beantree]

They are just delightful Minnie&Moose. Little fluffy bottoms! It's said the ones that feather the wings first are pullets. I have never studied our chicks that carefully though to confirm the accuracy of that sexing method.

[Space Chick]

They are gorgeous

[Luvachicken]

Awwww, those are just very sweet.

Perhaps next year I will give my best broody a chance at being a mum - if hubby will let me.

[Minnie&Moose]

Thought it was time to show off Magda's chicks again - no longer cute and fluffy!

 

So, here they are on their first free range - at about 4 weeks old.

 

Using mum as a playground!

 

 

 

And here they are now (no doubt as to the sex of the 2 wheaten marans )

 

 

Here are the orps (these 2 I assume are male

 

And the one I hope might just be a keeper (though no doubt the sex change fairy will be along shortly )

Edited July 14, 2014 by Guest

[Luvachicken]

Wow they have grown

Lots of lovely photos there.

They do look beautiful though even if you may have some males - I have no idea which is which and think that all of you that can tell the sex are very clever

[Minnie&Moose]

Hi luvachicken - it's a bit easier when you can see their heads I've resized the pictures now so no more giant headless chicks! And I'm only guessing as to their sexes! Perhaps I'll be lucky and someone in the know will come along and tell me that the boy orps are really girlies - but there's absolutely no question about the marans - apart from their impressive headgear, they're also completely the wrong colour - the girls are lovely and pale with brown heads - these 2 hooligans are chestnut and black/green - so no sex change fairy's going to be able to do anything about them for me!

[Daphne]

I think you might be right The small one in the background has a lot of comb, and the larger one in the foreground has swoopy tail feathers and a large tail. Like you, I'd be keeping my fingers crossed on No3, I'd say girl from what I can see

[Minnie&Moose]

Thanks Daphne. Fingers crossed for little no. 3. Both 'male' orps are much more 'scruffy' and 'fluffy' than the tidy little neat one, - which was the first to feather up, and has always looked much more 'groomed' than its 'siblings'. To avoid disappointment though we're still referring to all of them as 'the little dinners'

[UKMARCH]

They've grown, how old are they in the latest photos? Lovely colours too.

[Minnie&Moose]

They're a day or 2 off 10 weeks in the later pictures.

[Minnie&Moose]

Looks like good news for 2 of our little males - a small-holder friend of a friend has a couple of flocks of hens who he'd like to run cockerals with - I'm hoping he'll do the choosing so I don't have to decide who gets lucky and who doesn't. They won't be going yet though - no crowing yet so they can stay until then, and he's promised he won't put them in with the hens until they're big enough to cope

[Luvachicken]

I'm glad you have found one of them a home