It’s been over a month since I have posted photos of the baby chicks we brought home around mid- Februaury so I thought I would give you an update.
My Oh My have they grown!
Big Martha {Barred Plymouth Rock}
2 week assessment: Big Martha is amazingly calm. Nothing seems to bother Big Martha. I think she might be the highest in the pecking order of this bunch. I love her, she’s so friendly and sweet.
7 week assessment: Big Martha loves The Girl Who Thinks She’s A Bird and helps with her homework everyday. She has quickly become our “favorite” bird this spring.
Buffy {Buff Orpington}
2 week assessment: Buffy is a total fruitcake. This one is going to be trouble.
7 week assessment: Ditto
Squeakers {Sex-Link}
2 week assessment: Always wants to be held. Until you hold her. Then she wants to be put down. But as soon as you put her down she comes up to your hand and wants to be picked up. Another fruitcake.
7 week assessment: She pecks at anything and everything. I think she would peck me to death if given the chance.
Peanut {Easter Egger}
2 week assessment: Peanut is a fun bird. Very curious, likes to be held and friendly.
7 week assessment: This is the #2 bird of the bunch. When she is not dive bombing the other chickens she is rolling around in the dirt. Goofy, but loveable.
Here is a picture of our second batch of spring chickens at just 1 week old. They two have grown past the “ugly duckling” stage and are starting to feather out.
Brown Fatty {Partridge Cochin}
2 week assessment: Very shy.
6 week assessment: Still very shy and withdrawn. Until you pick her up, then she wiggles and tries to get away. The jury is still out on this one.
White Fatty {Cochin}
2 week assessment: Very quite and shy. She likes to hide in the corner.
6 week assessment: White Fatty has settled in and now likes to jump around like a crazy and tries to fly. She has a lot of spunk and she’s a little goofy too.
Baby Fat {Australorp}
2 week assessment: Just about the most curious bird on the planet. She is always poking her head out to see what is going on.
6 week assessment: Baby Fat is still rather curious, but unlike Black Fatty {our older Australorp} she doesn’t like to be held.
I was hoping my neighbor Girly Girl would have her new chicken coop built by now and I’d be able to ship off Buff the Wayward Chicken and Peter the escape artist. However she is still waiting for her husband Chino the Handyman to build her a coop.
Let’s hope it’s soon.
I think I’ll wait about another month or so until the baby chicks have grown a bit before I put them in with the Big Girls. Keeping chickens as pets is a blast, they all have such different personalities and are {for the most part} very easy going.
Plus you can steal their eggs.
If you’d like to learn more about keeping chickens as backyard pets, Amazon has The Joy of Keeping Chickens on sale for $10.17.
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