Saturday, June 12, 2010

Chickens!

Yes, we finally decided to get back into raising chickens. Here are our four new girls a few days after bought them. Not sure how many weeks they were, definitely not baby chicks, pre-teens maybe? This is only our second time having chickens, so I am by no means an expert. I still have to look up what breed they are, hope they're good layers!
Faster than a speeding chicken? They are super fast, and two of them jump straight up when startled. Right now they are in the downstairs bathtub with a heatlamp and the exhaust fan on. This picture is from two weeks ago, so now they are just about big enough to put outside, we're going to try it in a small pen today and see how they do.
So far no names, but when I end up with trippy pictures like this, perhaps be looking for some 1960's counterculture monikers like O'Leary, Lucy, Janis and Jerry.

1 comment:

Anne Huskey-Lockard said...

And as chickens, they should be able to live up to those names well!!!
I love chicks when they are at this in-between stage; still cute and not really getting their full grown chicken look!
Maybe they are pre-teens!

XXOO!!
Anne