Chick Update ~ Scrambled Treat

 

The chickies are now four weeks old and are almost completely feathered out now. Mrs. Cotton is still mothering them and doing a great job.

This flashy chick on the left sticks out as being the most curious, the least fearful, and the one that most resembles it’s Dad, Sid Vicious, our Golden Laced Bearded Polish Roo. Which leads me to be suspicious that it may be a rooster, too.

I’ve started feeding them treats other than just their chick crumbles, such as this tasty dish of scrambled eggs blended with milk and topped off with ground flax seed and bread crumbs. I’ve also started providing the chicklets grit to help them to grind up their food within their crops.

Notice the chick on the right? I thought it might have our Silkie roo as it’s Dad, but within the last couple days, it’s feathers have come in smooth and a few on it’s back are a gold color, though it is still mostly black.

There’s that flashy chick on the left again, and the mostly black chick on the right. The chicklet in the background is obviously Sid’s progeny also, with it’s bright flash of gold, like a cape, on it’s back and around it’s neck.

The chickies are also getting some interesting pokey feathering on their heads. I wonder if they will grow into pouffy-heads like their Dad, too?

It’s so fun to watch these chicks develop because I have no idea what their final appearance will look like. Will they look more like a Polish chicken, an Ameracauna, a Barred Rock, Silver-laced Wyandotte, Rhode Island Red or a completely different breed altogether?

Only time will tell!

This video is cute because you can see how Mrs. Cotton picks up the food and feeds it to her chicks, like baby birds do in the wild.