6 Weeks

Chicks a couple days old..

Chicks 6 weeks old..

I can not believe how fast they're growing. Only about 12 more weeks or so till eggs!

This is Pearl (our soup names went out the window when we built the Poop Coop)..People seem to like her the best. I think because she was the cute little yellow chick everybody pictures when then think of chicks..


Lizzy used to be my favorite..


but she's getting more stuck up the older she gets so now my favorite is Flo..


She's got Farrah feathered feathers, she's a complete pig and she likes me :D Or, she likes my corn, anyway. I'll take either. (I didn't notice that Nathan was naming them after characters from Cars until he wanted to name one Sally.)

Esther is DeWitte's chicken.


He picked her out and she's the only one he knows by name just by looking at her.

Mildred is the reason they're all gonna stay locked up in their run and coop until they learn to put themselves to bed at night..
They all come running when I yell "Here kitty, kitty!" but it took the three of us 10 min. on our hands and knees under the trampoline to get her the last time she was out. You could catch bird flu easier than you could catch that chicken.

Oh and now I know why they refer to scared people as "chicken". My chickens are scared of everything! Yesterday, I put pine shavings in the run and they all huddled in the corner for almost an hour, like the shaving were face eating monsters.