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Day Old to
Six Weeks
New Arrivals!!!!!
Twenty-seven one day old Bantam
Chicks in a cardboard box brooder with suspended heat lamp
(rigged out of a desktop lamp and some rose-colored saran
wrap).
Enjoying
a good meal of fine ground chick mash - and stepping in it
too!
Relaxing
and snoozing under the warmth of 'mama' (the heat lamp)
Side
view of chicks. Our order contained a combination of
chicks: Eleven
Bantam Wyandottes, fifteen Bantam Rhode Island Reds and one
'Rare Mystery Chick' which came free with the order.
It's gonna be interesting to find out what she/he turns out to
be!
TWO
WEEKS: A Rhode Island chick learning to perch at two weeks old
SMILE!
Posing
for the camera. Aren't they cute?
 Two
weeks old and exploring the 'big wide world' outside in an
enclosed area
(and
checking out the camera too!)
TWO
WEEKS: Spending
the day in the sun...
....and
scratching for bugs.
The
hatchery sent along a free exotic chick... well, here she is
eyeing the camera.
SIX
WEEKS: They think the shovel is mother hen diggin'
up all 'em juicy grubs for eating!
Sheesh! Enough
pictures already!
The
exotic chick scratching for worms.
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