Chicks Week 2

This first group of pictures is from the start of week 2. They grow so amazingly fast!  They all started to get their wing feathers -- Felicity's are the most prominent because of her coloring.

Sheeba with Dottie just behind

Dottie and Sheeba on her right

 They are also doing a lot more scratching -- in other words, kicking the bedding everywhere and digging their food out of the feeder and spreading it all over the ground

this shot shows all their little wing feathers growing in 

 Since they were making such a mess of their food I gradually raised it up on a brick.  I don't think the gradual lift was really necessary, but Sally is pretty small relative to the others and I wanted to make sure that she could reach.

Yesterday I found Ducky perched on top of the waterer. Today when I checked on them she was perched on the food dish. I guess her wing feathers are working.  Time for a cover on the brooder box.

Here are some pictures from today -- you'll see how much they grew in the 5 days since the first set of pics.

Check out Ducky's feathers

View from the front

View from the back

 Meanwhile little Sally still looks cute and fuzzy. Although if you look closely she has her wing feathers and tail feathers coming out the back

The brooding hen pose. They looked like they might want to start roosting on something so I put a wooden slat in there to see if they would perch and so far they are just jumping over it.

Dottie with a lot more wing and tail feathers

 Lots of feathers -- here they are all huddled in the corner because I turned off their warmer light to take the pics.