Farm Journal
We have grown a lot of feathers on our wings ....
so now we can roost ...
We are starting "thinking" outside the box ...
I am sure you sometime wonder : What do baby chicks do at night ??? I can tell you … they party !!! They chat all the time, then they have that need to puck against the plastic shell of the pool they are in … At 2am it is a very annoying little noise !!!
Joke aside I still think they are cute and actually pretty amazing … I know that after living in the boonies for a while one finds the life of baby chicks “amazing” … They just don’t stop .. When they finally go for a nap it lasts a very short time and they are up and running again … and eating eating eating ….
They are already one week old … and they are growing so fast !!!! Now they have little feathers on their wings and they are starting to use those wings !!! A little too much for my taste … 50 unruly baby chicks flying in the house !!! Don’t laugh : not funny !!!! We are not there yet but they are already flying on top of their water cooler …
I will keep you posted on the progress ....
Today is a good day to start a blog !!
My first 50 chickens arrived ... they are totally cute ...
I got two different breeds, 25 Dominique and 25 Rhode Island Red, both are heritage breeds, meaning they are old breeds that have not been genetically modified for fast confinement production !!!
I got them through US mail .. pretty amazing to me … all squeezed next to each other to keep warm … I was ready for them when I got home from the post office … as soon as we put them in their space they run for food and water, I had read that when you get them out of the box, they need some time to adapt … not those ones … they were
ready for snacks … and they are still snacking !!!
They are getting organic starter feed and of course because it is organic the feed does not contain any medicine or other scary stuff … That was my biggest problem to resolve when I decided to get the chickens, to find feed without medication and organic … nobody is doing it around here … sad !!!
I will keep you posted ...
in the meantime if you are interested check those links to learn more about heritage breed :
a few month from now that is what they will look like ....
http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/poultry/chickens/dominiques/index.htm
http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/poultry/chickens/rhodeislandred/index.htm