Beepla's are 1-week old!

We made it through the first week with only one mortality!  I call this an achievement as I've never raised chicks before (my sister did it last time & lost one as well).   Here are some photos of the babies, and there are duplicates of the same bird, but some of them were not cooperating lol. 

A dark Easter Egger

 Bella a light easter egger

 A suspected rooster (the buff orp)

2 light easter eggers.  They like the wood I gave them to sit on

 Silver lace wyandotte

 Jersey giant

 Biggggggggggggg Stretch!! 

 Can't forget the other leg!

 One of my 3 light brahma's

 A look at how the light brahma wing is developing (it's under developed compared to the other chicks)

 overview of some of them.  2 Jersey giant on right side, 4 easter eggers on left

 Dark easter egger

 light easter egger

 One of my australorp

 Buff orpington

Photos of the goings on today

The fluffy butts got moved into the milk tank/milk house today.  It took a little bit of doing, and for awhile I thought it might not work because of the broken door I had to fix that wasn't going back together very well, but it worked out good and they seem a lot happier. 

I gave them a log to "roost" on, or rather learn to roost on, because they can hardly hurt themselves if they roost on something like that log initially.  They seem to like it...

Can't forget photos of some of the adults. :-)  Mom likes the coloration on the ISA Browns, but I'm not overly impressed.  Their temperaments are good, and their egg laying abilities are good, but the colorings are too similar.  I can't tell the difference between them without their leg bands, and sometimes they're too far away to see their leg bands.

Jethro is of course NOT a chicken, but he's adorable, and was enjoying the sunshine none-the-less so he got himself featured in today's post. :-) 

Chicken roost's & new fluffy butt prep - guinea/chicken hybrids

I feel highly accomplished.  I pulled a couple random branches & old pieces of wood down to the chicken house and arranged them in such a way as to allow the chickens more room to roost so they stop picking on each other.

I don't know if it will help, since the ISA Browns we have are rather lacking in intelligence sometimes.  Although, admittedly, it isn't entirely their fault because they were chicks without a mother to teach them to do things like roost and scratch for food so they had to learn these "skills" by themselves, or in the case of roosting on sticks, we had to teach them.

Either way, later on when the other chicks come I don't think these new roosts will go to waste because either they won't use them and Hubby will hang another pallet mid-air for me, or they do use them and he doesn't need to help me.  Either way I'm sure it will be fine.

I have approximately 8 days to wait for my chicks to arrive give or take a day or two... and I'm excited, not going to lie.  I need to go to the co-op and buy some chick starter and little things like that, but mostly I'm prepared for them to arrive. :-)

*Gets distracted by Hubby*

I just realized after talking with Hubs and googling a little bit that my husbands guinea roo's are covering my ISA Brown hens.  I'm freaking out. LOL!!  I google image searched it and these resulting hybrids are UGLY!!  But you know what?  I bet it wouldn't be difficult to tell them out of the rest of the flock when it came time to cull them out!!  I wonder how they taste... Hmmm... Interesting.  May need to run with this.  But the hybrids crossed with a naked neck chicken end up looking like buzzards!!  I'm laughing so hard right now, no kidding!!