I am technically three days late on this post, so please forgive me. We have been very busy. We started back to school this week, built a new turkey roost ( I will have a post about this soon) and began work on a coop for our new batch of laying hens. Busy, busy, busy! But we are happy, happy, happy. Don’t you just love Si?
Anyway…back to my post.
Here is what one of our broiler chicks looks like now.
Three week old Cornish Cross chick.
They are starting to get more feathers and less fuzz.
In case you have forgotten what they looked like three weeks ago…
Day old Cornish Cross chick.
They are growing like weeds and eating like little pigs.
They have been weaned off of the heat lamps and are out on pasture. We move the pens every morning to give the chicks access to fresh grass. We did have to put three of the smallest chicks back into the brooder so that they would not be trampled to death. When you raise chickens, a brooder makes a great hospital.
We let these little guys out when we are outside so that we can keep an eye on them. Once they get a little bigger we will integrate them back into the flock.
Here are the others enjoying the grass.
I love seeing and hearing happy little chicks.
