It's been a while since I blogged so I thought I should do an update on the chickens, especially since I found out some people are actually reading this blog.
It's a little eerie to see such a lineup every time I go into the chicken house. There they are, their beady black eyes watching my every move just waiting for me to open the door. We are still feeding chick starter and they eat lots of it but I can tell from their appearance they are wanting meat...
...and my legs look like giant worms.
Once the outside is painted (mostly the part inside the pen) then I can let them out where they might catch any bugs that might happlessly wonder into the area. Every once in a while I will catch a grasshopper and throw it into the coop ahead of me, that keeps them occupied. One chicken will grab up the grasshopper and then the contest is on for how long he/she can hold on to it before another snatches it away and so on.
This is free chick that was sent. I haven't exactly identified it yet, any guesses?
It's a little eerie to see such a lineup every time I go into the chicken house. There they are, their beady black eyes watching my every move just waiting for me to open the door. We are still feeding chick starter and they eat lots of it but I can tell from their appearance they are wanting meat...
...and my legs look like giant worms.
Once the outside is painted (mostly the part inside the pen) then I can let them out where they might catch any bugs that might happlessly wonder into the area. Every once in a while I will catch a grasshopper and throw it into the coop ahead of me, that keeps them occupied. One chicken will grab up the grasshopper and then the contest is on for how long he/she can hold on to it before another snatches it away and so on.
This is free chick that was sent. I haven't exactly identified it yet, any guesses?
I think that this may be a speckled Sussex? Not so sure since it is still so young.
ReplyDeleteMy chicken experience is really limited, but she looks a lot like our Americauna (Easter-Egger) but darker. Ours is supposed to lay greenish-blue eggs and is the wildest one of the bunch. I think they are much closer relations to their wild cousins than a lot of the calmer egg layers, but maybe I didn't get the girls to hndle them enough either.
ReplyDeleteWhat are the rest of them?
ReplyDeleteThey are Buff Orpingtons.
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