The Flock, Now Outside

The girls have spent a few nights in the new house now. It got a little chilly, so I found them all cramming into one nesting box to sleep.

The are adjusting quite well to the new setup outside, and DH is glad to have the garage back in working order. When it starts to get dark, they all pile up somewhere in the coop. So far they haven't chosen the right spots, so we end up putting them into the roost area and closing them in. Sammy seems to always want her people to put her in and take her out. She'll stand at the opening in the morning making noise until we come get her and place her at the bottom of the ladder. Guess she doesn't care for the ladder.

Out for a backyard fieldtrip

Its almost time to move the chicks outside... so we've taken to small little trips to the backyard so they can get familiar, but still be able to return to the nice warm garage housing. At least until the weather is more consistently warm, and they have a few more feathers. I'm thinking one week from now, they'll be good to go live in the big coop. I still might put the heat lamp out there for them, because I worry about them getting too cold!

They had so much fun, it was hard to gather them back up when it was time to go in.

Gettin' Bigger

Its been 3 1/2 weeks now and the chicks are getting so big now.

They are extremely social and love to be out of the tiny box and sitting on their 'people'. We've had to make a new living arrangement for them in the garage temporarily, until they are big enough to go out into the real coop.