My card reader STILL isn't working *grrr* so despite having taken a photo of my oldest show chick I can't upload it to the computer. But with every day she grows I am getting more and more excited about her show prospects. Even at the age of three weeks she seems to be developing a nice deep mask and she gets her cute little 'blow' going too! I'm hoping someone out there might be able to share a photo of a chick that turned out to be a nice show bird at a similiar age so I can compare, having never raised a show chick before. Also please cross your fingers, pray or whatever you do personally that I can fix her little toes up over the next week as it would be a shame if she turns out nearly as good as her dad and can't be shown because of her wonky toes. See looks like she will be a skyblue normal and her sister looks to be cobalt(maybe violet) normal, her foster sister from the pied clutch has turned out cinnamon but is not showing any body colour yet and her foster sister from the crested clutch will be yellow. Yes, they are all hens :bump:

Good news that they're hens!

 

I'm sure Kaz has much better photos (we all know I am 'challenged' when it comes to happy snapping! :bump: ) But here's a couple I have on file:

 

 

What cuties :bump: Hope she looks like that when she grows a few more feathers. At the moment she is at the stage where her feathers on her wings are open and on her head are just open but still getting length and her body is mostly down with pin feathers sticking through so those are a little older, by about a week or two I would guess?

Edited November 5, 200816 yr by melbournebudgies

those are a little older, by about a week or two I would guess?

 

Not too much, I pulled both from the nest box to photo.

My one could be a little younger than three weeks actually, it's a little confusing trying to work out how old they are when you've got a bunch of clutches all mixed up together and only two out of a clutch of 5 that actually survived. I'll have to look at a few photos so I can try and pin down which chicks out of the five these are, I'm pretty sure the smaller one is the youngest but this one might be closer to two weeks old maybe. Some seemed to thrive more than others and were larger even when they came out of the egg and this was one f those so she was always bigger than her nest mates so maybe I got myself confused and thought she was the oldest. :bump:

Are they ringed, if so clean the ring and work out from your records. That's what I do. I am always checking there age and size to see how they are going. FUN

They are rung Splat but my records are a little all over the place for this lot as some were fostered out when they were tiny before they were rung and so I'm still not sure which chicks are which :happy-dancing: In a few months time it will be all irrelevent anyway as that one week won't make a zot of difference, now that I can see colours I know which chicks are from which clutch so that's the main thing. I shall just wait and see