are you my mother?

I know some of you are probably tired of looking at chicken pictures, but I just love it when the chicks look over at the hens. This picture reminds me of the childrens book "Are You My Mother?"

chicks & mildred

We finally got some of the chicks to go outside this weekend. I want them eating grass and bugs.
Mildred impatiently waiting her turn. Petunia is in the box Mildred wants in...she use to lay in the box on the opposite end, but now she has decided she wants this box...Petunia has always laid in this box. Mildred just stands out there screaming for Petunia to get out!

sketchercising

After I walked at the park yesterday, I did this quick sketch in my small watercolor moleskine. I'm trying to get back in the habit of walking everyday, but not today, it's raining "cats and dogs." There is a group of sketchers that walk and sketch and they call it sketchercising.

butt ugly...

I was trying to get the chicks to go outside today, since they are 3 weeks old, they should be able to tolerate 75 degree temperature. I got some of them to venture halfway down the run ramp, but that was about it. As you can see, they are past the cute stage...they are butt ugly now! lol

weekend visitor...

Kris brought Riley home this weekend...she was dog sitting for Kyle. Riley is such a sweet boy! Chance wasn't very happy about the situation, but then he wasn't happy Abby was here either. Buckles was ok with him, as long as Riley didn't get to close to me...Buckles gets so jealous.

week 2

The chicks are 2 weeks old today. They are really starting to feather out. We took them out of the pool last Saturday...they were starting to fly out.

page of sketches

one week old

The chicks are one week old and have grown a lot! If you look close, you can see they have started getting feathers on their wings. I'm feeding them turkey feed for 2 weeks and then I'll switch them to chicken grower feed. The turkey feed has 30% protein, which is very important the first 2 weeks.

5 years old!

Today is Chance's birthday...I can't believe he's 5 years old!

new batch of chicks

This morning I picked up our day old chicks from the post office. We ordered 25 chicks, but they sent us 26. All of these chicks are broilers, so they will be in the freezer in about 6 to 8 weeks.