9 Weeks

Oh, I'm a bad chick momma!

These are their 9 week pics, but it's already time for their 10 week pics!

Dixie
Dixie

Dixie

Dixie

Dixie

Pepper

Pepper

Pepper

Ginger

Ginger

Ginger

Pixie

Pixie

Worry and Trouble

Uh Oh!

Somechick's started crowing!

I've only heard it twice. The first time I thought it was Lavender warning the chicks about some danger. But today I heard it and it sounds like a tiny crow.

The chicks all run around scared after hearing the crow, so I can't figure out who's crowing.

Also, Dixie is growing some BIG wattles.

Boy? Girl?

Pixie has zero wattles and Pepper and Ginger have tiny ones.

I'll try to get some pics soon.

Who Says We're Too Big?!?

Cutest video ever!

It's a little dark and hard to see, but this is a video of the chicks all trying to sleep underneath Lavender.

As you can see they are a tiny bit to big.

Also, notice how Lavender is panting. It was 80 F degrees in their pen and the chicks still wanted to cuddle!

8 Weeks

There has been an explosion of fluff in the last week!

Every chick is now sporting their own unique style.

Ginger - with a tough mohawk

Pepper- with a rock star mullet

Pixie - with a slicked back afro

Dixie - with a mad scientist fuzz top

Combs and Claws

Pixie has a lobster claw- see pic below

Strange isn't it?




Above: Dixie's single comb
Below:Pixie's comb


And..........Ginger's gigantic comb!

Who's a boy? ha,ha

7 Weeks

Dixie

Pepper

Ginger

Pixie

"Wat-choo lookin' at?"

Little Box

This is the box the chick's eggs were sent in.

Look at them now!

I don't think they'll fit in the box all together after this.

6 Week Pics

6 Week pics of the babies.

Ginger

Pepper

Pixie

Dixie

I love their little mohawks!

Happy Day

The chicks and Lavender spent the whole day outside today.

The Ladies spent the day outside too.

My run is square shaped and I had divided 1/3 for Lavender and chicks with a wire fence.

Lavender wouldn't agree to stay in her side of the run, so it was either supervise them all the time or let one flock out at a time.

I solved the problem today.

I took pieces of cardboard and wedged them between the fence and other stuff (pots, bricks, ect.).

It looks horrible, but Lavender is perfectly happy to stay on her side of the fence, now that she can't see the other side of the fence.

Good thing she's short.

Gaa! Fight!

The Ladies and Lavender are not getting along.

I knew integrating Lavender's chicks and the Ladies

would be difficult, but waaa! it's so hard to watch them fight!

The Ladies aren't really interested in the chicks.

But they hate Lavender.

I was supervising playtime today and

Butter grabbed onto Lavender's ruff.

They didn't say a thing. No squawking, just silent wrestling.

Which was scarier.

I didn't know if I should separate them.

It's part of the pecking order, getting Lavender back in line,

but it's so hard to watch!

I finally pulled them apart,

because Butter is 3x Lavender's weight and

somechicken was going to get hurt.

Lavender lost a few feathers.

Gaaaaa! What to do?!?

Chicken Cartoon

I sent my BYC secret swapper's package today!

This is a cartoon I sent along with the package. It shows ladies 'helping' me find presents.

Chicks Outside!

I've been letting Lavender and the chicks outside everyday for an hour. It works best to let them out earlier in the morning, while the ladies are paying the rent (laying their communal egg).

I tried to divide the outdoor pen into a section for Lavender and a section for the ladies, but Lavender didn't like that idea. She wants all the space. Don't fence her in!

I am really worried about the ladies pecking the chicks on the head, so if they are outside together I have to babysit them.


Here's a vid of the chicks and Lavender outside yesterday.