Farm Journal

They are 5 weeks old, very small birds compare to the Dominiques or the Rhode Islands, very shy too. Almost impossible to take a decent pix of them ... they keep on running away from me. Very pretty birds ...

It has been a while since the last picutes it has been very busy around here  ... well as you can see on the pix the Dominiques and the Rhode Island Red are doing very well, they are now 10 weeks old ....

Breakfast time ...

Dominique ....

Daily work ....

I took those pictures a few days ago when they were just 10 days old.

It took the previous flock a good two weeks to do the same thing .... !!!!

                                          Another queen of the water cooler .....

They are already jumping out of the pool ... but they don't know how to get back in !!! ....  When one is in trouble he will call for help with this very loud cry and all the others are totally quiet ....

                                                        Visiting .....

Let me tell you something : pastured chickens are happy chickens !!!!

You should see them when I first open the door of their coop in the morning ... they run the whole length of their pasture at least 2 or 3 times stretching legs and wings ... they are hillarious to watch ... then they calm down and start getting seriously busy ...

Scratching and searching all day long ....

.... roosting ....

 snacking ... .

6 weeks old Rhode Island Red ...

6 weeks old Dominique ...

This morning at 6:45am the post office called me, my baby chicks had arrived !!

I got a lot of emails about getting them through mail order. Here is a pix of the box ....

They are all bundled against each other to keep warm.

They hatched on Monday and they can survive for a couple of days without feed or water. But let me tell you they are starving .... those have been out of the box for less than 5 minutes ....

The first 2 days I put the feed and the water in little plates that I find easier for them to access than the feeders, that also mean serious poopingscouping .. lol ..

They are Leghorn Light Brown :

http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/poultry/chickens/leghorn/index.htm

They are smaller than the ones I got but have a reputation of good layers (no pressure) and they produce white eggs.

After many months of hard work, I am very pleased to announce that our e-commerce is open for business.

We offer a line of 100% natural preserves that will change with the seasons.  Our preserves are made with whole fruit and organic sugar.

They turned 4 weeks old yesterday and today I moved them to their first pasture !!!

Within a few minutes, they were already scraching and searching. For the first day I left them in their pen but I have surrounded it with a long electric fence so tomorrow I will let them out ....

They are growing fast and becoming much more friendly .. if picking at you is a sign of sociability in chickens world !!!

3 weeks old today and growing much faster than I thought, I have to keep up with housing facility !!! I moved them into a kind of large birdcage (10" x 6" x 4")  with the kid's pool inside where they like to go back at night .... They are still too young to be outside full time ....

Their feathers are growing very fast and they keep on stretching their wings ... they are very curious of their new environment, the other day when refilling the waterer I did not close the birdcage door properly within a minute i got 5 toddler chicks running wild ... It took me 45 minutes to catch all of them .. and a serious workout !!!

We have grown a lot of feathers on our wings ....

so now we can roost ...

We are starting "thinking" outside the box ...