We got some chicks at the beginning of May! I sorta twisted Justin's arm into getting them. You know, putting out my lip and having big puppy dog eyes! Just kidding, they were on clearance and said it would be a wonderful Mother's Day present for me. So he went to Tractor Supply Hardware store and bought 15 of them!!! I didn't know he would get so many, but that means more eggs hopefully! We hope none of them turn out to be roosters, but the store wasn't 100% sure that they were all pullets (female chickens). Justin made a lovely coop for them and is in the process of making the chicken run now. Here are the pictures of them when we first got them (we kept them in the bathtub for a week) and then some more recent pictures of them. Enjoy!
When we first got them, we kept them in my bathtub!
This one died shortly after we got them because it was "pasted up", which means that it's poop got runny (from being stressed) and stuck onto the fluffy down so that it covered it's vent and it couldn't go potty anymore...so it died. :-( I could've saved it if I knew about this before hand but sadly I learned about it too late.
A couple of cuties.
Up close and personal. This is Penny.
They soon got too big for the bathtub and got moved outside underneath the playhouse.
Trevor likes feeding them.
Here is the coop Justin made. Since this picture, I have painted it brown
and Justin is in the process of making a chicken run on the right side of it.
We also moved the chicks in there.
This is where they were and it was pretty hot in there.
Now our lawnmower has it's home back!
They sure grow fast! Look at all those feathers!
This is Penny a little more grown up. We hope she/he doesn't turn out to be a rooster, but it might!
It's a Bantam chicken (Small breed) and it has feathers on it's feet!
Here is the other Bantam chicken (we have 2), this one is named Serenity.
It has feathers on it's feet too, see?
This one was curious and jumped up on my lap! I read once that chickens are attracted to the color red and my camera is red. Maybe that's why it was so curious!
Speckles is the lightest colored chicken we have.
Friendly, aren't they?
Penny and Serenity again.
This chick is called Fancy Nancy because she has a fancy feather on her right wing. I know, it's kinda hard to see. We couldn't name all of them because a lot of them look so similar. Maybe when they are more grown up we will be able to tell them apart!
