April 17, 2011

Sickness still reigns over my house this weekend, so despite a beautiful day today, nothing got done in the garden.  So, in order to have SOMETHING to post tonight, I took another video of the chicks.  By the way they've grown, I'm not sure I can still call them chicks even though they're not quite a month old, but here are the girls.


As I say, Sunday's the day I've decided to totally clean out their brooder.  I did this knowing I may very well not be using this brooder later this week.  My brother called tonight and we both had the same idea.  We cam to the conclusion independently that our chicks were getting too big for their tote brooders, so we are both planning on setting up the Costco produce box for the brooder.  Looks like I'm going to have to put it in the car bay of the garage, as the kids have totally taken over the play room bay, as they should.

Anyway, I took some pics of the girls and thought this was the best one.

I love the close-up of the three oldest enjoying the fresh food. Twinkydink is doing what they all do these days, dive right in by standing on the feeder.  They're big enough now that I may not put a board up against it for them to stand on to peck at the "ground" They don't seem to use it.  Well, Buffy does as she's a week younger and a lot smaller still.  I'm looking forward to her exponential growth over the next few days.

Enjoy!