Woooo! We just got them today!
8 gorgeous wee 8 week old chicks, after watching them for a while we think we may have 3 cocks and 6 pullets, but not completely sure of course. Yes we have just spent about the last 3 hours sitting in the chicken run with them watching them making themselves at home. We couldn't believe they were straight out of the box and straight into scratching around, finding bugs and worms, all the while peeping away to each other. They are quite friendly, taking food out of our hands.
In other exciting news we are booked in next weekend to do a farm tour with some local chicken breeders, they keep their chickens organically so we are really looking forward to learning their methods and ethos.
Pictures to follow....!
Ooh, I really want to do some farm tours this year just to learn about how others are raising their animals. Chickens are the best decision we ever made. We have six girls all producing about an egg a day. We enjoy watching them, interacting with them and we love how much our son has learned from them! Congrats on your chickens!
ReplyDeleteThanks! They really are fascinating to watch aren't they, I can't believe what aggressive little hunters they are. Yes I'm really looking forward to the tour, they feed their chickens with organic sprouted grains which I am really looking forward to learning about.
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