Where are they now? (An update on the chicks)

Right now the chicks are smack in the middle of their awkward 'teenage' stage and looking more like birds of prey having a bad day then anything else.



For some reason the two black chicks have a couple of white spots on them. (Mom thinks they might be half barred rock.) Handful has two of them on her neck. The youngest chick has a dusting of bronze her shoulders and although you can't see them in the picture she has a few white specks on her wings and legs. As you can see Miss Munster is getting white feathers with black speckles (funny because the Ameraucana girls are orange with black speckles.). These are going to be some interesting looking chickens.






Mohawk is an amazing mom she taught them how to eat and drink, attacks anything that comes too close, and lets them have first dibs on food, except for scratch grain; she uses her body to block the chicks and eats the grain so fast you'd almost believe you had never put any in. We gave her a sandbox and she spends a lot of time in there.
She hates cameras for some reason.


Right now Mom and I are in the planning stage of a new chicken house. We have a line drawing of what we think we want, but still aren't sure about it.  Mostly we don't know what to use for the bottom. Wire, plywood, wire then plywood, plywood and cinderblocks, or just put it on the dirt? We're leaning towards just putting it on the dirt.

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