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The little bantams are almost a week. They have some wing feathers. They are still so small they easily fit in the palm of my hand. Even smaller than the chicken can they are eating out of.
The other 22 birds are so much larger and have almost all their feathers. This is their very ugly stage. In about another week they will most likely be ready to go outside.
The barred rocks seem the most timid. The golden comets the most friendly and inquisitive.
Pictures were taken 4/6 so they peeps are a little over a week old. 3 ducks are mixed in there for the time being. This is the last year I will do ducks! At night we are keeping them in the shed with a light but a sharp learning curve one night taught me that it was not a heat light.
The little peeps are easy keepers. Outside during the day if warm enough and back in during the evening.
This blog is mostly for my info. So I can keep track of the different varieties of chickens that we bought this spring. We would like to decide which kind we would enjoy best for next year. The year we bought 36 chickens. Their purposes will be for both eggs and meat. They are free roaming chickens.
We bought 3/28
7-Golden Comets pullets
6-Barred Rocks pullets
3-Rhode Island Red pullets
6-Amberlinks st. run
6-New Hampshire st. run
Bought 4/18
4-Bantams st. run
Bought 5/21
10-Araucana pullets
The chickens in the pictures above are 2 of our current Reds.
