Meet the Girls!!

It's turned into Chick Days in our house!  Our newest adventure is all about raising 6 baby chicks from hatchlings to big beautiful egg laying hens!  We are learning so much about different breeds, their temperaments and personalities and how to best care for hens.

There will be more posts to come as they grow. The current brooder is in our guest bathroom shower, heated to a nice and warm 85-90 degree temperature. Each week we will be cooling them down by five degrees to prepare for their outdoor coop by the time they are 6-8 weeks old.

Take a look and meet the girls at about one week old here... and to see even more pictures click the read more link below...

Dolley an Autralorp Hen

Grace a Dominique Hen

Annabelle an Ameraucana Hen

Virginia a Rhode Island Red Hen

Eleanor also an Ameraucana Hen

 

 

Lucy a Buff Orpington Hen

 

 

 

More pictures of the baby chicks...

Me with Lucy

Tovrea with Virginia

CoCo with Lucy

Dolley

The brooder.

CoCo took this picture of me and Lucy

Grace. Laying on her back- a wives tale that you have a good hen...not a rooster.

Lucy