Baby Poultry update

Fast forward a few weeks. The chicks are getting big and need to be moved into a bigger brooder. After I set up the new brooder, I grabbed the camera, a friend (Mandy) and together we photographed each chick before moving it  into the new brooder.
I still didn't know all the breeds I had and wanted to compare the photos with the hatchery website and a really cool site I found that has a plethora of poultry pictures (say that ten times fast!).

This one is a white crested black polish. I have two of these little guys.Their head fluff hasn't changed much sense the last time you saw them\ but they are feathering out nicely.

This photogenic guy is a golden laced polish, I have 3 of these cuties and all of them pose for the camera.

I have 4 chicks that are smaller than all the others, now I know the hatchery didn't give me any bantams (miniature chickens, like silkies) but they do have some smaller chickens in their Rare Breed category (which I got 10 of). 2 of the 4 look like the little one pictured above. After looking through the possible breeds, I narrowed it down to 2, the Silver Spangled Hamburg or the Lakenvelder, leaning towards the former.  Only time will tell as they grow up and feather out more.

This is one of the other 2 smaller chicks, these 2 are the smallest of them all and reminded me of the silkie chicks next to the Maran chicks. Both of these guys are identical  with the dramatic markings.

These guys are a little harder to narrow down and I have 4 possible breeds. The Black Breasted Red Aseel, the Silver Duckwing Standard Phoenix, the Red Jungle Fowl, or the Silver Ducking Yokohama, all of which are beautiful but not very big.

There are 4 little ones that look similar to the chick above. 

I doubt all of them are the same breed, and I should be able to figure out the differences once they are older and their feathers are more developed . I have 3 breeds that they could be, the Cuckoo Maran, the Dominique, and the Barred Plymouth Rock. All of which have different barred (stripe) patterns once full grown.

Mystery chick, there are a few of these... There are so many breeds that this little gal could be, I have to wait until she's more feathered out to decide what she is, though it does look like shes getting red/brown feathers, it still doesn't help narrow down what she or the others are.

I have 5 of these girls, they are my Welsummers. When they first arrived I noticed that they had a golden cast to all their baby fuzz (the dark gold on her chest) and it was easy to identify them in the crowed of chicks.

I have two of these babies and  I know exactly what they are at this age, they are Golden Laced Cochin! The cute feathers on their legs give them away :)

Above is one of my beautiful Easter Eggers girls. I got 10 of these lovely ladies and I couldn't be more happy with them. In the past I've only had Easter Egger hens that were shades of dark brown (similar to a full grown Welsummer), none of these girls are turning out that color. Some have black with gold, some have a blue with gold, and a few are like the chick above with a gray/gold/cream look.  These girls might end up being prettier than my Copper Maran hens!

I don't want to bog down the post with pictures of all 37 chicks so we'll move on to up-dates on the other babies.

Here are the turkeys! We are down to two now. One became sickly and died after a few days, I don't know what was wrong, but it doesn't seem to be effecting the other two.

I did tell you they were friendly :)

Someone decided to nap on mom.

Ducklings and goslings! The ducklings are growing so fast, the yellow guys are almost as big as the goslings.

Along with their crumble feed I also clip the tops off of my fodder system (which the big birds get) and give it to the babies, so far the ducks LOVE it and the chicks kinda eat it.

Posing! 

ok one more photo before I go. The cuteness that is ducklings.