Chicks at Six Weeks
The chicks look like miniature chickens now. Some of them are clearly roosters with growing combs and wattles that hint at red in the sunlight. Ssome are clearly hens with small compact combs that are pale in color. Some are more mysterious with combs that might be compact or maybe they haven't really grown yet, it's just hard to tell. Click to see a larger view.Their feathers are beautiful!
They squawk and run away if you grab at one of them to pick it up, but then if you hold the captured one so that its wings are restrained, it soon calms down. If you're squatting down, you can put the calmed chicken on your thigh and it will stay there contentedly for quite a while. This suggests that the trauma is in getting caught, but that captivity itself is not too bad a deal :)
We tore down the old run beside their chicken house last weekend but we've had lots of rain so haven't been able to build a new run. We don't want them to run free until they're a bit older, because they have no mama to teach them about predators, and we have a lot around here. They'll enjoy the run when we get it built.
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posted by Leslie @ 3:33 PM
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I raised chicks last year and the year before, but not this year. I really enjoy raising chicks. They are so much fun to watch. Even the Cornish cross chicks can be cute and spunky. I'll probably have to be content to watch your chicks on your blog this year unless I can figure how to raise some meat birds in the fall in suburbia with out straining relations with my neighbors. ;-)
You should have someone put on a fox costume, and you could be the mother hen, teaching little siblings how to hide from the big bad fox.
They look almost ready for their close up now.
UA - city neighbors do have some "attitudes" about critters. That's okay, different strokes for different folks. So, when are you moving out of the 'burbs? :)
Romunov, you have an active imagination! My husband is a fox but I don't think the chickens would listen to me.
Pablo, good to see you here. Thanks for the comment. I don't know what to say back.
They do look great! Good job mother henning.
Pretty chickies, Leslie! I really like their feather coloring. I have just posted about my latest hair-raising (as opposed to hare raising) adventure with my little flock. The fun never ends. Some of mine actually "cry" and "ask" to be picked up. They are such mama's babies. One of them was having a scaredy-cat moment tonight and flew up onto my shoulder and snuggled down. Maybe she thinks she's a kitten. :)
Chickens KNOW that whatever is trying to catch them is likely not to have good intentions!
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