These baby chickens hatched on March 13th and 14. The Rooster I have is a Rhode Island Red, 2 hens are Barred Rock and other 2 are Production Red. The chicks are either Double Red from the Production Red hens or Black Sex-Links from the Barred Rock hens, the Sex-links are chicken hybrids types that can be sexed by markings on them due to unique genetic mixes. White-yellow spots on head means Rooster, solid black with only red spot on chest is a hen for Black Sex-links.
Pic of my baby chicks as promised:
Pic of brooder I made with all chicks in it:
http://yfrog.com/6z1000972zj
Black Sex-Link pullet/hen chick:
http://yfrog.com/0b1000974mj
Black Sex-Link cockerel/rooster chick:
http://yfrog.com/6u1000975j
Double Red chick, a hybrid of Rhode Island Red and Production Red unknown sex until grown:
http://yfrog.com/ht1000976tj

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I mean... cool!

Hey interesting hobby (or livelyhood!) as my cousin does the same and I'd like to have a stab at it if ever I decide to move back to the countryside, urban foxes and cats are a particular nightmare in the area I'm living in at the moment, not to mention the enclosed spaces and mountains of concrete! ¬_¬
Anyways, great post, thanks. :)
*Cheeky side note, remember to focus on the chicks next time with the camera as opposed to the background!! :P

Aww, they're so cute! Makes me want to have some.

I always wanted a pair of chickens, I'd call them Korma & Vindaloo just for a cheap laugh

Mother and Clucker, surely! ^^

Do they smell? For some reason I've always thought that chickens reek.

Add peatmoss to the woodchips, peatmoss is used for trapping as a covering for traps because it absorbs and neutralizes smells. I happened to mix some in one day and it worked. By the way my camera is crap, the lack of focus is an issue with hardware not user. As a hobby it's fun if you tame them from when you get the chicks, but I am doing this as a partial source of food and plan to keep about 25 hens and the roosters (maybe 25 or more) will be used for food also since I got heavy breed chickens, good egg layers and edible at same time.

Update, I bought a few chicks from a hatchery and they bought over some kind of bacteria. I had a baby chick that I hatched die from respiratory disease, one of the red ones. Makes me sad, had to cremate the body and am putting anti-biotics for chickens into the water. Sadly if this is a virus there is nothing I can do but count my losses and see what I get a week later.

=(
I hope none of the rest of them die.

HA HA HA!!
THEY LOOK DELICIOUS!! >:D
(Wish you all the best with them though!)

Usually there's around 5 or so chickens in a flock that like me the most so I give those names, like there's one Black Sex Link pullet with a brown left cheek, white chin and black right cheek I call Jester. Got a Black Sex Link cockerel I named Bert though I don't know why. Depends on the owner really.

AWW CUTE!
Just to throw in something random, I wonder how many of the dumbasses at my school would deep fry them.