let me see you shake your tail feathers. 😀
Our biddies are growing with leaps and (thank goodness) bounds. It’s amazing how much they’ve changed over two weeks. One thing remains the same. They are still chicken chickens. Every time I go into their temporary pen they run for cover. They are great fun to sit and watch. I’m glad I don’t really plan on eating any of this flock, because watching them grow up makes it hard to kill them. Maybe by the time we order the ones for the stew pot I won’t be so enamored by them. 😀 Here’s a shot or two of their latest development. Aren’t they cute?
Their combs are beginning to develop…
The little roosters are starting to grow spurs…o boy!
and here we have the tail feathers. Not much shaking there though. 😀
Until next week…
Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
hmmm…ya think? Sounds pretty over-simplified to me although it’s a nice thought.
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They are so cute and gorgeous colours! I stayed on a farm as a young adult and loved it…probably as it reminded me of my childhood. I loved the pigs when I was a little girl….on Saturdays when I went to my BF’s farm I used to go straight to the pig pen!
Glad they bring back good memories for you, Kathleen. I love having them…my DH won’t even entertain the idea of a pig. 🙂
here are a few links to a blog that I read regularly called Future House Farm. It’s funny, irreverant, with some colorful language thrown in (just warning) . . . but I thought you might find some of the info helpful and entertaining, since they’re raising chickens too. They (the blog’s written by a young couple in, maybe PA?) did a cool thing using their chickens to help make some powerful compost. Anyhow, following are three posts that I thought you might enjoy and to give you a view of your potential future,
http://tinyurl.com/3mll29
http://tinyurl.com/4g5wf6
And one to give you something to really look forward to,
http://tinyurl.com/5aazfk
It looks like Fay is hanging out around Florida for now? Stay safe.
The writer does have a bit of a potty mouth. And to think he/she eats with the same mouth he/she talks with. 😀
That is a new approach to composting…I would be worried about the chickens eating partially decomposed stuff. They are easily made sick by botulism. Evidentially they’ve had no problem with that, but the last time we had chickens we did. We do add the bedding from the chicken pen to our compost…and that’s powerful stuff. ~ hold the nose, hold the nose ~
ahh, interesting about the botulism. I do wonder if they know about that, because I do know that chickens catch certain diseases easily (hence the large use of antibiotics in the poultry industry), so maybe that way of composting isn’t a good way to go. I do hope your eggs turn out as large and tasty looking as those they posted. My cousin, in the early 90s, raised chickens, and I will never forget how GOOD those eggs were. To this day, I have yet to have eggs as tasty as those were. Here’s to future amazing omelettes, quiche, frittatas, and over-easies!!