chicks – Page 2 – My tiny u.p. farm

Busy Springtime

May 14, 2016May 14, 2016Jen PowellLeave a comment

There has been a lot going on lately around here. After my last post, no more chicks hatched. We ended up with 22 hatched out of 42 for that batch. I candled the remaining eggs – 10 were empty, and 10 just didn’t hatch. And then a day or so later one of the chicks who had hatched died. So we now have 21 small chicks, and 4 larger chicks. I’m done with hatching for the year – we now have 43 chickens including our adults.

Here is one of our larger chicks, Escape Artist’s daughter:

esky daughter — Looks like her mama. Also tries to jump out of the box just like mama did.

We vaccinated the chicks for Marek’s last weekend. The older chicks were given it at the same time – may be a little late but it’s better than nothing. We only had the one vial and didn’t want to try to split it up, especially since this was the first time we’ve ever given it. My chickens from last year were all vaccinated at the hatchery. I don’t know if my 2-year-old chickens were vaccinated. Either they were or we don’t have Marek’s disease here, but I have heard that it is all over the place. I’ve read that it takes 2 weeks for the chicks to build up any immunity after being vaccinated, so next weekend we might move the older chicks outside. We were going to add another little chicken house for the youngsters, but we’ve decided we will do a split coop again – we have the room in the chicken house, with two separate rooms, and fenced runs on both sides, so we can keep them separate but all safe and comfortable. The smaller chicks will have to go out later – they are still too small. I’ll have to integrate them with the larger chicks when they do get moved, but there are so many smaller ones I think they’ll be able to hold their own against the 4 larger chicks then. Here is one of the smaller chicks:

red head maran — I think she’s one of the Marans (or came out of one of those eggs), but she is black with a red head. I noticed her feathers growing in stick out a little bit, like a frizzle chicken. We’ll have to see what she ends up looking like. She’s one of my favorites from this batch.

frizzle wings — Here you can see some of the feathers on the top part of her wing stick out, away from her body. I’ve never seen that before, but hers are doing that symmetrically on both sides of her body so it must be what she is supposed to have happen.

We lost one of our ducks this week. We had a male (we think) who had some trouble with his feet – he wasn’t really able to keep up with the group when they were moving around, we had noticed. In their pen that didn’t matter so much, but earlier this week I was outside and noticed he seemed to be stuck in the pool. I don’t know if he got sick, or just got stuck in the pool and got too cold. I took him out and set him on the grass in the sunshine, and dried him off a little with a towel. I hoped he would get better, but he died a little while later. Here are our remaining 11 ducks:

The ducks always run away when you get near them. The chickens, much smarter, come running because they know people=food. Here are my chickens out today:

got snacks — “Did you bring us some snacks?”

Our trees are starting to fill in. Springtime is in full swing, except we are in the U.P. So we got snow flurries today, and it didn’t even get in the 40s. It’s supposed to warm up in the next few days though. Here is our cherry tree in bloom:

Our cherry tree. My son’s pool and Slip’n’Slide are under the tree – we really haven’t had warm enough temperatures for either of those, aside from a couple days here and there.

Since spring is here, I’ve been planning the garden. We are using the same spaces as last year, and I’m making a new space for my son. He had a little flower-bed area last year but it didn’t get enough sunshine. I gave him a big square, about 8×8 or so, that used to have weeds and asparagus, and some old rhubarb. The rhubarb and weeds were the only things that really grew there. So he’s helping me clean it up. And we started our garden plans:

garden plan 2016 — This year’s garden plan

And we started seeds last weekend:

more seedlings — Here is one of our two trays. I figured out we don’t need to start as much in the house as I used to. Last year a lot of things did great just sown directly in the ground.

My strawberry patch is doing well. I put some new plants in this year. The old ones are growing well and spreading, and the new ones are doing ok. I need to make a cover in the next few weeks or so, to keep tiny creatures from stealing my berries this year.

My son and I were taking a walk last weekend and came across something extra delicious. I have been telling him and my husband about morels since we moved up to the U.P. and have not been able to find any. We found 4 in the woods last weekend. Not many, but it’s enough to show them what I was talking about, and let them have a taste. We haven’t had much rain this year, but now we know where we might be able to find them – I have been checking in that area again but haven’t seen much else, either because of the lack of rain, or because forest creatures are finding them first. Here are the morels we found:

Chicks and bunnies – updates

May 5, 2016Jen PowellLeave a comment

I counted our baby rabbits tonight. Wind (our white Californian) had 10 live babies! Fire, our black Rex, had 7 total – 2 died the other day, but we counted 5 alive this evening. Wind’s babies are all different colors. Some are naked pink, some are black, and some are spotted.

For the chicks – we are still mid-hatch, and we are up to 22 hatched out of 42. I don’t see any more pipping at the moment, but from how this hatch has been going I’m not worried. Today was their due date, and they started hatching 2 days ago so I’m going to give any stragglers until Saturday night. So far we’ve gotten 11 Marans, 5 Easter/olive eggers, three bantams and three from our home grown eggs. Here are some updated pictures of our newest fuzzballs:

More chicks are here!

May 4, 2016Jen PowellLeave a comment

Our main hatch is due tomorrow – 42 eggs in the incubator. Our chicks started hatching last night. So far we have 8 in the brooder, and another one was just hatched a few minutes ago. There are a few more pipping now. So far, we’ve had 3 bantams, 3 easter eggers, and 3 of our homegrown eggs hatch. There is a maran that is half hatched as of the last time I looked. Here are some pictures:

start of hatch — Here you can see some little chicks amongst the eggs. This picture was taken this morning. We had one completely hatched last night, and three in there by this morning.

first hatched — Here is another pic from this morning. You can see a little head peeking out under the large yellow incubator fan.

Large brooder — Here is the large brooder box – I was going to mix everyone together, but tonight I decided to rethink that. The new chicks are a lot smaller than these three week olds, so I will wait until the newbies are all running around to see if we can mix them. They have their own large box.

chick fuzz — More pictures of the babies.

chicks 2 — Cute little gray and brown chicks – you can see the feathered legs on this brown bantam.

tiny chicks — A tiny bantam in the foreground.

larger chicks 2 — Here are the older chicks – 3 weeks old now.

larger chicks — Here they are again. I’m worried they are too large to meet the babies for awhile. We’ll see.

Also, my rabbits have both had their litters – they were born yesterday and last night. I have not counted them yet so I don’t know how many each had. So we have lots of babies on our farm at the moment.

Test hatch – 2 week photo shoot

April 25, 2016April 25, 2016Jen PowellLeave a comment

Our test hatch (or batch 1) chicks turned two weeks old today. They are doing well, and getting bigger. They are a little skittish. Also, one of them is Escape Artist’s child. Just like mom, this one, at less than 2 weeks old, figured out he can fly and perch on the brooder box. I have now been using a window screen to cover the box. We have to cover/uncover pretty slowly so the chicks don’t freak out when we go to clean out the brooder or feed/water them.

I attempted to take some pictures today – when I say I attempted, I mean that I was able to take them, but the pictures are not very good. The chicks did not want to cooperate very much, and I think they were a bit close up, since I had to hold the chicks so I didn’t have to go find them if I set them down. The brooder is in our spare bedroom and I can just imagine them taking off somewhere under the bed and us not being able to get them before they poop everywhere. Here are some (somewhat fuzzy) pictures of our chicks:

chick 1 — This is one of my (probably) Australorp mix chicks – she was the first to hatch in this batch. There is another one (the 4th one) that looks very similar to her. She is larger than the other one though. (the window screen behind her is resting on a different box, NOT the brooder box. Just in case you were wondering)

chick one 2 — Here is another picture of her. She is black with some gray, and orange legs (not black legs like the adult australorps.) I figure they are australorps because I don’t have any other adult black hens that lay brown eggs. Escape artist is the only other black hen and she lays white eggs (she’s my only white egg layer).

escys child — Here is Escape Artist’s (Esky’s) daughter. She can fly out of her box just like mama. I believe Esky is an Andalusian. So this one is part Andalusian, part whatever-her-daddy-is.

esky child 2 — Another picture of Esky2. She looks a lot like mom but she has a lot more white / yellow in her feathering. We’ll have to wait and see.

light chick1 — Here is my lighter chick, some kind of speckled chicken. I have a speckled sussex, a barred rock, and a cornish that could be mama – I also have a speckled rooster. So I’m not sure. But this one is very pretty – almost has some eyeliner bits near his eyes.

light chick 3 — It’s quite a bit early to tell, but I’m suspicious this one is a rooster. Seems a little assertive compared to the other chicks, but that may not indicate anything. Time will tell.

light chick 2 — Here is one more picture of the speckled chick.

chick 4 — Here is Chick 4. (4th chick to hatch). Another Australorp mix. She did not want to perch, just wanted to try to get back with her buddies. I was worried she’d fall so I had to hold a little more tightly than the others.

chick 4 2 — This chick is getting some pretty white in her wings.

I love watching them grow up – it’s fun to speculate about what they will look like as adults, but with mixed breeds there is not really any way to know until their feathers are all in. I like having a bunch of different colors/looks of chicken. It helps us tell them apart also.

Super busy day!

April 13, 2016Jen PowellLeave a comment

We had an extremely busy day (well, evening). First I worked all day at my job. Then I drove for an hour to meet with this lady to buy some hatching eggs! For our large hatch we are using some from our own chickens, but I saw an ad on craigslist for hatching eggs of Black Copper Marans and Olive/Easter Eggers. I went and met with her today and got a bunch of hatching eggs. She threw in some Bantam eggs. I’m not sure how that will go, since bantams are so small. Their eggs are very tiny. She said they should do fine mixed with regular sized chickens though. Here are the cool hatching eggs – you will see why I wanted them:

new eggs — See how dark brown the Maran eggs are? The larger carton is not full. You can see the small whitish eggs are VERY small – those are the bantam eggs. She labeled the eggs- I guess the marans have two varieties. Some with feathered legs, and some without.

new eggs 2 — This top carton has the olive egger and easter egger eggs. Easter eggers (usually Auracauna chickens) can lay blue or green eggs. If you cross them with a maran, the next generation will lay dark olive eggs. You can see some of these eggs are more green than blue.

I got home after my egg-adventure, and the ducks, who are STILL in the house for tonight, needed a bath very badly. We are planning on getting them outside tomorrow – my hubby is off so he said he’d start getting their temporary outside housing set up, and I’ll help get them in there tomorrow when I get home. But with this bathtime, I finally got some pictures of the blow-drying ducks:

fluffy ducks — Look how massive they are – we’ve had them 3 weeks now. They are the size of full grown chickens, I swear. They are getting most of their feathers and starting to sometimes quack.

fluffy ducks 4 — Ducks getting blow dried, and preening while they dry off. I keep telling them, while blow drying, that this is how we get fluffy eggs.

One other thing, actually kind of frustrating, that happened today – I ordered a bunch of trees and fruit plants this year (raspberries, strawberries, elderberries, etc) – I got a notice that they already shipped last week – We still have snow here, although it is supposed to warm up this week and stay warmer (fingers crossed). My plants came today. Which means I had to figure out what to do with them/get them set up. I’ve been saving milk jugs for most of the winter, so that I didn’t have to buy buckets or large pots. I plan on keeping most things in pots for a year or two, so we can keep them safe from deer and the lawn mower. Some things were dormant but most said to plant right away. Here are my new plants, all dressed up and nowhere really to go yet:

more plants — Poppies (on the right) and a peony on the left – I got the peony for free. I will leave them in pots till I know it’s safe to put them outside. I got a bunch of bareroot strawberry plants too – just behind the pots in this picture. I think I will put them out this weekend and cover them with mulch to keep them safe. If the snow melts off my strawberry patch, that is.

gnarled filbert — Here is my “Henry Lauder’s Walking Stick” – also called a Gnarled Filbert. I’m very excited to have one of these. They are really cool trees, with gnarled branches.

Oh, and also – an update on my test hatch. It turned out that of the last 4 eggs, 2 were duds (I candled last night finally, and they were completely empty). The other two had chicks that never came out. I opened them tonight and they were dead. I gave them till tonight to start pipping but there was nothing. So, of the actual fertile eggs, I ended up with about a 2/3 hatch success – 4 out of 6 eggs hatched. Those 4 chicks are doing very well. I cleaned and disinfected the incubator and set it to dry. I am not sure if I will start the “real” hatch tomorrow or Friday night. I will have to see how much work moving the ducks tomorrow night is.

Test hatch day 2

April 12, 2016Jen PowellLeave a comment

After my post last night we had two more chicks hatch, and then another one this morning. There are four eggs left with no signs of hatching yet. Today is day 21 though (their actual due date) so I will give them some more time. Probably another 24-48 hours – if I don’t see any signs of pipping by another 24 hours I may give up. If they start to hatch before then I will let them hatch all the way. Here are some more pictures:

second hatchling — Here is the first chick from last night, standing up at the top of the pic; and the 2nd chick, half hanging out of its shell.

third — Here is our little blondie chick. It had just hatched here.

chicks 3 — Here they are in the brooder box.

tiny chicks in the brooder — They are all very cute.

The chicks are so cute – I really like the little blondie one – I’m trying to figure out who everyone’s parents are. I know the smallest black one, that hatched this morning, is the baby of Escape Artist (my hen who lays white eggs). The other two black ones must have Australorp mothers, since they have black coloring. The blonde one I have no idea – it most likely is not my white hens (or not much genetic material from them) because it would be more yellow – yellow fuzz translates to white feathers as an adult, usually. I don’t have any other very light adults, besides my splash maran and my brahmas, but this chick does not have feathered legs. I will just have to wait and see how they look as adults.

Test Hatch Chicks!

April 11, 2016Jen Powell1 Comment

I’m doing a small test hatch (8 eggs) before doing my “real” hatch next weekend – we want to hatch around 50 chicks, so we will end up with a few more with my test hatch. My eggs went in 3/22 – they were due to start hatching tomorrow. Yesterday we took the automatic turner out of the incubator, so the eggs can get ready to hatch.

I heard some peeping last night, and noticed a little poked hole in one. This morning there was a little more of a hole, and more peeping. I got home this evening to 2 pipping eggs (Pipping is where the chick is starting to break through).

bit o cracked shell — Hard to see, but the middle egg here has some broken shell on the bottom – this is what one of the eggs looked like when I got home.

out pops the chick — The chick stretched and stretched, and broke through. Once it seemed really determined to get out I think it took it maybe 5-10 minutes till it popped out.

The chick is very tired, and keeps wandering around the incubator and then passing out for a bit, then peeping, then moving around again. He / she will take a while to dry off.

pip — Here the egg just above the white one has a hole – this is our other Pipping egg – I have been hearing that chick peep also, and a tiny beak keeps coming out, so I expect this one to hatch in the next few hours or so. On the left you can see the egg that the first chick hatched from.

wandering 2 — Tiny chick – its eyes have been opening a bit too, but she is still so sleepy. I think I will wait till we have at least 2 hatched before moving them to a brooder box.

So far I think my test hatch is going well. I’ll give it a couple more days. I’m hoping to get at least 6 out of this batch of 8 eggs, in order to feel like I had a good hatch rate. I have not candled them though, so I will just have to wait and see if they all are viable.

Chick time is coming early

March 26, 2016March 26, 2016Jen Powell1 Comment

I got an incubator this year, so that I can hatch some new chickens. I wanted one that I could hatch 50 eggs in. I originally was planning on buying a Brinsea – they have a nice 50-egg model, but it’s like $500-$600. That ended up being out of my budget. I went on the Backyard Chickens forums, and some people were recommending the Hova-bator Genesis 1588. It ended up being a little over $200 – I bought an automatic egg turner with it. It’s got digital settings for heat and it’s easy to set the humidity. With the egg turner we can just set it and not mess with it very often.

Here’s the egg turner. You can get different ones for different kinds of birds. This was the one for chicken eggs.

My plan was to start hatching in mid-April, so that we would have warm enough outside temps by the time the chicks come that they wouldn’t be brooding in the house very long. I opened up the incubator box last week to make sure the thing works, and to set it up. The incubator comes preset to the correct temperatures, and for humidity you just put water into certain water channels inside it, depending on what humidity level you need. It came with very clear instructions. While reading, I found that they recommend you do a test hatch first, with a small number of eggs, to make sure you don’t need to tweak anything before you try hatching a bunch of eggs, or expensive eggs. It turns out that we have time to do a test hatch.

I grabbed 8 eggs this week and they are sitting in the incubator. They should hatch April 12th. Here they are in the incubator:

incubator with eggs — My test hatch – there are 7 varying shades of brown eggs, and one white egg from Escape Artist (my hen who likes to escape all the time).

So far the temp has been hovering in the 99.5-99.8 degree range, which I believe is a good level. We will see if we need to tweak it depending on how this hatch goes. If all goes well I will do my large hatch after April 12th. I will be hatching eggs from our chickens, and I also found someone near here that has Black Copper Maran (chocolate shelled eggs) and Olive Egger eggs for sale – I spoke with them and they said they should have some in mid April that I can buy. We also have a friend who has Easter Eggers (blue eggs), and he’s going to save some eggs for me for that week as well. I’m excited to possibly get some hens that lay other colors of eggs.

I feel like we are a baby bird factory. With the ducks we are brooding, and now chicks in the incubator, and another (larger) batch of chicks later, we are very busy.

Our ducks are growing very fast. We’ve had them a week as of today. I believe they have doubled in size. I have changed their brooder box 4 times – the first two times because they needed more room, and the last two because they are slobs. We’ve been using cardboard boxes, two taped together, with plastic garbage bags taped around the bottom (to keep the floor dry). Ducks love to play in their water. A lot. I was using a chick waterer at first, and then I devised a waterer using a disposable tupperware container – I cut holes in the lid so they can get their bills in, but not step in the water. The waterer is sitting on a plastic tray in the brooder box. The ducks still manage to get everything soaked. They get water out with their bill, and then dibble it all over each other, and the plastic tray, and then they splash in the plastic tray. So then their bedding (we’re using paper towels) gets soaked. And they poop a lot just like chickens. So we are changing bedding a few times a day. I think I will enjoy the chicks more this time because they are not as messy as the ducks. Chicks poop a lot but they don’t play in their water nearly as much.

Here are some newer pictures of the ducks, I think they were upset I was taking pictures here, I woke them up from a nap and they were freaking out a little.

What’s happening in our yard – June photo tour

June 26, 2015June 24, 2015Jen PowellLeave a comment

Lupines - we have these growing near our mailbox, and they are growing across the street as well. When I was a kid, there were some at only one tiny spot in the area I live in. Now they are in ditches along the road all over the place. — Lupines – we have these growing near our mailbox, and they are growing across the street as well. When I was a kid, there were some at only one tiny spot in the area I live in. Now they are in ditches along the road all over the place.

Here's a new flower - I don't remember these from last year. I don't know what it is but it's pretty. — Here’s a new flower – I don’t remember these from last year. I don’t know what it is but it’s pretty.

A purple flower. It reminds me of a balloon flower (maybe that is what this is.)

Our pink peonies. My parents planted these years ago and they are still going strong.

These barrels are on our porch. Last year I tried to grow beets and carrots here, and nasturtiums. The Nasturtiums did ok, but my son found out they were edible and kept eating them. I planted a bunch of different flowers in them this year, along with some herbs.

Here are some more barrels, just off our porch. My mom planted lilies in them, and they've slowly stopped producing. We got one nice lily last year. I divided them and put them in only one barrel (the right one here) and the left barrel has other flowers. Echinacea and black eyed susan and others. — Here are some more barrels, just off our porch. My mom planted lilies in them, and they’ve slowly stopped producing. We got one nice lily last year. I divided them and put the big bulbs in only one barrel (the right one here) – there is also a yarrow growing in it; the left barrel has other flowers: Echinacea and black eyed susan and others.

Here is some lemon balm growing in one of the barrels on the porch. It smells so good.

Here is our back yard. The leaves have filled out on the trees.

Our side yard with the rose bush. The roses are blooming now. At the nearest post, I have a wisteria planted. It's about 5 inches tall, and doing well. — Our side yard with the rose bush. The roses are blooming now. At the nearest post, I have a wisteria planted. It’s about 5 inches tall, and doing well. It’s inside the little round cage you can see at the base of the post. I don’t know if deer eat wisteria, and don’t want to chance it.

Some pretty flowers along our house. Wild Daisies and some kind of yellow flower - not sure if that was planted or if it's wild. — Some pretty flowers along our house. Wild Daisies and some kind of yellow flower – not sure if that was planted or if it’s wild. The white/green variegated leaf plants are “snow on the mountain” – they have taken over a lot of the flower beds and we are trying to eradicate it. It’s even growing at the edge of the woods now in spots.

Here is my son's tiny garden. He wanted his own space, so I gave him some seedlings to plant. — Here is my son’s tiny garden. He wanted his own space, so I gave him some seedlings to plant. He’s got tomatoes, brussel sprouts, and flowers. And Mint. He’s excited about the mint because he can eat it right from the garden.

Here are my chickens in their muddy nasty run. I'm going to have to fix that, possibly sooner than I was planning. It's driving me bananas. — Here are my chickens in their muddy nasty run. I’m going to have to fix that, possibly sooner than I was planning. It’s driving me bananas.

This is my tiny rooster. As he is growing, his comb is getting wonkier. The back portion is attached to his head off-center, which adds even more to the floppiness of it. He's been really mean to the other chicks lately. Maybe they make fun of his goofy comb. — This is my tiny rooster. As he is growing, his comb is getting wonkier. The back portion is attached to his head off-center, which adds even more to the floppiness of it. He’s been really mean to the other chicks lately. Maybe they make fun of his goofy comb.

Here is my white brahma, which I actually think is a "Splash Brahma" - I love his/her coloring. — Here is my white brahma, which I actually think is a “Splash Brahma” – I love his/her coloring.

Here's one of the blue spruce I planted this spring. It's about 5 inches tall. It's going to take a really, really, really long time to get as big as I want it - I have it in the front yard as a screen to give us privacy. It's not doing its job very well. Someday... — Here’s one of the blue spruce I planted this spring. It’s about 5 inches tall. It’s going to take a really, really, really long time to get as big as I want it – I have it in the front yard as a screen to give us privacy. It’s not doing its job very well. Someday…

Here is one of my elderberry trees. I have two (you need two to get fruit so they can cross pollinate). I have put this near my blue spruce so that I actually get the screen I want in a more timely fashion. These are fast-growing.

Here are some of the remaining forget-me-nots. We had tons of these earlier in the year, as splashes of blue all around the woods and the edges of the yard. When I was a child, these only were growing at a camp two houses behind our house. (We have two camps behind us, it was at the back one.) I moved back and discovered they grow all over our yard now. I love them. — Here are some of the remaining forget-me-nots. We had tons of these earlier in the year, as splashes of blue all around the woods and the edges of the yard. When I was a child, these only were growing at a camp two houses behind our house. I moved back and discovered they grow all over our yard now.

Here is a giant mullein plant growing in our supposed-to-be asparagus patch. Mullein is a great medicinal plant so I'm letting it stay. This thing is about 3 feet tall right now. The big leaves are 1 ft long. — Here is a giant mullein plant growing in our supposed-to-be asparagus patch. Mullein is a great medicinal plant so I’m letting it stay. This thing is about 3 feet tall right now. The big leaves are 1 ft long.

I hope you enjoyed my photo tour. I like my yard, and watching the changes it goes through during the warm months.

Tiny chicks growing up

June 1, 2015May 31, 2015Jen Powell1 Comment

I meant to do an update on my smallest batch of chicks, showing how each one changed from one week to now; but I moved them outside before I could do that update. I don’t want to traumatize them by catching them all – it’s harder to do once they are out in the coop. I went to their coop with my camera and they were very curious; I think they were hopeful that I had some treats for them. Here are some cool pictures of the babies – they are now 6 weeks old.

Here you can see one of the Buff Brahmas (we have two this batch) along with a red chick and our little rooster who has a strange puff of feathers behind his comb. — Here you can see one of the Buff Brahmas on the left (we have two this batch) along with a red chick and our little rooster who has a strange puff of feathers behind his comb – this little rooster started crowing in the last week.

Here's our black Sumatra (I believe that's what he/she is - this is the escape artist) along with a gray/white chick and the rooster. — Here’s our Black Sumatra (I believe that’s what he/she is – this is the escape artist) along with a gray/white chick (the dorking, I think) and the rooster.

Here are my two Buff Brahmas — Here are my two small Buff Brahmas. I called these two “the twins” in the first photo shoot of them back in late April.

Here's my Sumatra, the dorking, and the red chick — Here’s my Sumatra (in front), the dorking, and the red chick.

Here's my brown speckled chick. He / she is a little more shy than some of the others. The rooster likes to be in pictures, so he's here too. — Here’s my brown speckled chick. He / she is a little more shy than some of the others. The rooster apparently likes to be in pictures, so he’s here too.

The whitish/grayish chick is a White Brahma, I believe. She has feathered legs like the other Brahmas. And the rooster is here too.

My white Brahma and my red chick. — My white Brahma and my red chick, and a Brahma behind them.

They are getting big. I’m a little more able to tell what kind they are. A few of them I’m still not so sure (even with the “teenager” chicks I still have no idea, and they are pretty much adults).

As you can see in some of the pictures above, my adult ladies were watching the photo shoot, wondering if I had any treats for them as well. Here they are:

My “teen” chicks were inside the coop eating instead of watching the photo shoot, so I didn’t get pictures of them today. They have been getting along better with the adults, but they still keep to themselves as a group instead of mingling with the adult hens.