New baby chicks

[baymule]

Those have to be the cutest pictures I have ever seen!!!!

 

[journey11]

That is curious about the skin color. I hadn't heard that before. I just thought all chicken broth turned yellow.

 

[bobm]

Grandson says ... cute, but where is the BBQ sauce ?

 

[Nyboy]

Silkie have black skin, do they make black soup?

 

[Ridgerunner]

I was wondering about the Silkies too with their black skin. The meat is supposed to be really dark too. Ive never raised or processed those walking toilet brushes so I cant say from experience.

I was wondering with those Lavenders, do you think she may have processed them when they were molting and they had a lot of those pin feathers. I dont know what color that ink is in the wet pin feathers but could that have been what colored the soup?

 

[lesa]

I have a niece that is a real "foody". She announced that she was making some recipe with black chicken. She posted a picture of it. The second I saw it, I realized it was a silkie! Somehow, it just doesn't seem right to eat one of those birds! I am sure the soup would be a very dark color indeed....

 

[bj taylor]

those are beautiful birds. your grandbaby is adorable! congrats on both

 

[ducks4you]

So CUTE!!! Looks like you have a couple of roosters, there.

 

[so lucky]

After many delays about getting a heat lamp in the coop, I finally decided to just leave the 7 week old chicks in there overnight last night, with no heat, no light. I thought it would only get down to 46, but the thermometer said 40 when I got up. They seemed fine when I went out to feed them and the big girls. Catjac, your plan helped me be determined to just leave the girls out, and know they would be ok.
They are not as tame and docile as I wanted by this time. Roger Rooster is very skittish, and I think the girls follow his lead. It may be that I didn't spend as much time with them as I did my first flock, two years ago. The older girls are really skittish and cranky now too, as they are all in some stage of molt. It looks like a chicken massacre around here.

 

[catjac1975]

As long as you have a good # of chicks they should be fine. I don't know it the cold with stress their health. 7 weeks is pretty old.