On March 12th, Rod brought home a box full of surprises!
15 little chicks ranging from 4-7 days old!
The kids of course had to hold them. . .
Right now they are just in a large plastic tub in one corner of our dining room with a heat lamp for keeping them warm. We are designing a chicken tractor (moveable chicken coop) that will allow them to graze outside and they will move to that as soon as we can get it built. Something tells me they will be ready for it before that gets accomplished! Every day they lose more fuzz and get more real feathers in. And I thought our kids grew fast!
We have 5 Rhode Island Reds, 5 Bantams, 3 Black Sex-link and 2 Buff Orphingtons. We named 2 of the blacks (Roxi & Raven) one of the buffs (Teefa) short for Queen Latifa because she thinks she's the queen of the whole brood, and one of the bantams we wanted to name Betty, but they all look so much alike that we don't know which one she is anymore! We will wait till all their feathers come in to name any more. They are all layers but we are contemplating getting some more and might get some fryers in that batch. We will see!
2 comments:
We will take a couple dozen eggs please!
Those pictures of the kids and chicks are precious. You need to send some of them in the York News Times as they publish pictures every day of different people and events....it would be a slam dunk to have them published!
Roger
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