Chicks are 2 weeks old!
Posted By Elaine on March 13, 2009
Jacob with a Lt. Brahma chick
Samuel with chick
My peeps are two weeks old! They are really getting strong! One flew out of the pool when we were trying to catch them for a photo op. The last time I had chicks I only had 6 of them so they got used to being caught for holding. One of them preferred to ride on my shoulder. This go round there are so many and I was worried about stress killing them early on, we just can’t hold them too much with out a lot of fuss. They are fun to watch play tag with a piece of wood shaving and now they are flying! We had better get that hoop house built but they still need the warmth for at least another 2 weeks. Yikes. We are going to have to figure out a way to keep them in the pool (They are in an old baby pool with TV boxes surrounding as a draft guard.). Almost all of them have their tail feathers now. The yellow chicks look to be the slowest to develop. They are probably Buff Orpingtons. I know I have White Rocks and they seem to develop the fastest so I doubt the yellow ones are Buff Rocks. So the rest have most of their wings feathered out and tail feathers are starting. In the center of the photo is a Turken chicken. They are called Naked Necks. They are very funny looking. I have 3, two blacks and one yellow. He is bowing his head so you can see his neck.
2 weeks old
Only 4 and a half more months until we have fresh eggs! yum.
Y’all come back now.
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