our 11 little chickies will be 4 weeks old on Saturday! they've gotten really big in that short amount of time, so big in fact that we've had to move them out of the two boxes i had them in. it was getting cramped and becoming a pain to clean them everyday. so we moved them all outside into the kid's playhouse! it's perfect and i'm not sure why i didn't think of this before... it's not 100% predator proof so i worry about them a little at night but i did my best to secure the house. even though they are pretty well feathered it still gets pretty cold at night so i put the heat lamp in there at night just in case.
i am sad to report that yesterday we had one chick fly the coop... so now we're down to 10 chickies. we looked everywhere for him but couldn't find him before nightfall. like i said it's still cold at night so i don't have much hope that he'll magically appear today. i hope it was a rooster :o)
the real (predator proof) chicken coop is close to being finished! they just need to paint it, add one more door & put the wire on. we'll probably paint it today or tomorrow so hopefully within the week our chicks should have a real home!
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