Chicks Update: Day 29
May 28th, 2009
The chicks are coming along nice. They have a lot of their feathers in now and their combs are slowly starting to get bigger.
This is the little chick that I am guessing is going to be a boy. His tail feathers are more droopy then the other chicks. He is one of the Golden Laced Wyandottes.
Two more weeks and they should be fully feathered according to our chicken book. Most of our chicks have boy names. So when we do find out which one is the rooster I guess we will have to give it a girl name. So far all four of the Barred Rocks are named Bob. The two Araucanas are named Elwood and Jake. One Rhode Island Red is named Jules. That leaves four left to name.
May 29th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
I think your rooster should be named Betty.
May 29th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
Hey thats cute. So we can have the four Bob’s and one Betty.
June 18th, 2009 at 3:06 am
What’s going on with the chickens these days? Any news? Any eggs??
June 18th, 2009 at 9:31 am
We need to do another chicken update, don’t we? All spare hours are presently being consumed by our fencing project. The chickens are about 7 weeks old now and fully feathered. Our chicken book says they start laying eggs at 4 to 5 months, so we have a while to go before the first white, brown, or green egg.