fuzzi's "Gardens and Chickens...and Goats? Oh My!" Journal and More Thread

[fuzzi]

I love following this one - I've never hatched out chicks.

I think they're cuter than kittens or puppies, but only for a week or so.

And just like @Mini Horses said, they're settling in.

It's HOT.

I said I wasn't going to do anything outside, but I noticed a big difference in temperature between coop 1 and coop 2. Coop 1 has shade cloth to the door.

Coop 2 has it now, as well.

There's still air flow.

 

[fuzzi]

I love following this one - I've never hatched out chicks.

 

[fuzzi]

I am glad that you got her some chicks... and good that you got bantams since you did not want standards..
The "chipmunk chicks" are the typical for a black breasted red color pattern... they will be something like black breasted red old english or american games or light or dark brown leghorn chicks... are their legs real yellow or slate-ish gray? Yellow would be more like leghorn coloring... and could be something else but that chipmunk is the typical color pattern of the black red color pattern.

Fascinating.

My Sussex were all chipmunk or yellow.

That's Rahab with chicks about a year ago.

Rahab and hatchmates, 2023.

Never gets old for me.

 

[farmerjan]

I've never seen sussex chicks... interesting they had the chipmunk pattern... Learn something new every day.
Did the lighter yellow chicks turn out to be the males or the females???
But then, the silver duckwing pattern has "chipmunk pattern chicks" but they are a more silver color instead of the reddish.... They are basically a black breasted silver.... and the thing is the females are salmon colored breast with silver neck and markings on their back... bb red have the females with a darker salmon on the breast and reddish/brown markings on their neck and back... sort of a partridge pattern to the feathers but not exactly... Welsummers have that chipmunk pattern to an extent.. but they are of the same bb red overall color pattern... New Hampshires have a faint chipmunk pattern sometimes..

 

[fuzzi]

Both.

Yellow Speckled Sussex chicks from 2024.
One male, one female (Tamar with wing issue is broody mom)

Female is Joanna

Adult Joanna (left)

From 2023, Martha (only yellow chick)

Adult Martha, with Dominique/Sussex chick. Her plumage was always lighter.

So there was no difference I could tell with yellow chicks. I think Silas was a yellow chick, but am not 100% sure.

 

[fuzzi]

Joanna and her brother, who eventually went to auction. Both started as yellow chicks.

 

[farmerjan]

Interesting.... really interesting.

 

[canesisters]

This just makes my heart happy. I'm so glad that you've got chicks. It'll be interesting to see what they turn out to be.
Odd that the store just called them chipmunk? They don't know what they ordered?

 

[Finnie]

I’ve had lots of speckled Sussex chicks (large fowl) and none of mine have ever been yellow. I wonder if it’s a bantam thing.

As far as TSC calling them “chipmunks”, they only get bantams in straight run assorted. They have no way of knowing what the breeds are. That’s how Hoover’s sends them.

 

[SageHill]

Both.

Yellow Speckled Sussex chicks from 2024.
One male, one female (Tamar with wing issue is broody mom)
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Female is Joanna

Adult Joanna (left)
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From 2023, Martha (only yellow chick)
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Adult Martha, with Dominique/Sussex chick. Her plumage was always lighter.

So there was no difference I could tell with yellow chicks. I think Silas was a yellow chick, but am not 100% sure.

That last pic is a pic of the week contender