Growing Chicks

Yesterday we'd had our chicks for exactly one week. These little monsters grow FAST! The photo above shows our "mystery chick" in the center back - Murray McMurray will send you a free mystery chick with your order if you want them to, and I thought it would be interesting. This one was chipmunk-marked like the others but lighter and without the dark tip on its bill. The chicks' wing tips are feathered out and they're getting little "shoulder pads" where more wing feathers are coming in.
They're getting stubby little tail feathers, too! Not the best photo but they get all excited when anything is happening and they move around a LOT. Two of them flew out of the box brooder when I took their pictures this morning. We usually have some window screens lying on top of their box now, to prevent escapes and injuries.
Here's a view from inside their box. I just lowered my camera and pressed the button. They all ran to the far side of the box. You can see the window screens up on top of the box and the egg carton bottom that I feed them in. They're looking more like small chickens in their posture and behaviors now, and less like cute little puffballs. They eye potential food with a cold sideways tilt of the head. They LOVE to scratch in the wood shavings. They toss it up like little snow blowers.