Baby Chicks Are Growing!

Here are our babies, they are scared of everything! I had to sneak up on them just to get this shot, otherwise, they run behind the shelter of the dog house and I keep going in circles trying to get a shot of them. So here are the pictures I did get through the fence.

 They are eating in these pictures. They are so little I just think they are so sweet I just wish that they would not be so skittish, but after all, they are chickens!  I would guess in the next couple of weeks we will be adding them to the flock. I really have too many and hopefully, a friend will help out and take a few off our hands.  More pictures coming as they grow!

The Coop

I thought I would post a picture of our coop!  It's very nice we have electricity so in the winter we have a heated waterer, lights and warming lamps to keep the chickens nice and toasty. We have a 30' x 10' enclosed pen.  We did section off the end of it and built doors so we now have a nursery for the baby chicks, we also put a dog house in there for shelter.  The chickens love it!

The Boys

Here are two of our roosters, Goldie is the big black one and Francis is our banty rooster. So far Goldie is still being nice, in other words, he has not attacked me YET! We have 4 more roosters to add to the mix this should be interesting.  We have had a total of 7 roosters in the past and believe it or not they all got along of course the boss of the bunch was a little banty rooster named Spike he was my favorite, unfortunately, he died this past fall.  All we found of him was a wing.  RIP little man you were so loved!

Hot Wallowing

A picture of our teenager chickens....it’s 90 outside and the are all piled in a wallow hole that just doesn’t look like it’s very comfortable not to mention how hot it would be!  I just love watching them they are so entertaining beats the heck out of watching TV!