The baby chicks are really growing!
I can’t believe how much they have changed! Of course, like all young things they each develop at their own pace. Some of them are almost completely feathered and other still have quite a bit of down. Their constantly preening themselves.
The chicks with the most feathers also have more tail feathers and larger combs. We’re thinking that these are cockerels and the less developed ones are hens. If anyone out there knows if our reasoning is correct let us newbie chicken farmers know for sure 😉 If we’re right then it looks like we have 8 or 9 cocks and 17 or 18 hens.
Their foraging abilities are getting better and better every day. Even though there’s plenty of food available in the feeders they’re constantly prowling the perimeter of their pen looking for tasty bugs to eat! I pity the ant that gets too close to the edge of their pen.
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