the chicken update

Our 3 week old babies. Notice their wing and body feathers are in. Next will come the head feathers, leaving the neck down. That will be their ugliest stage. These birds are all mixed breeds, though the 2 grey ones come from 2 modified Easter eggers.

 Our "teenagers".  They're fully feathered (and running towards me 'cause they know I'm bringing food), and are 6-7 weeks old. They're half the size of our full grown birds. (2 Astrolops, 1 tetra tint, 2 easter eggers)

 Our broody hen.

 And the broody hen riled because I'm trying to make her move so I can gather eggs. See how she's fluffed out all her feathers? It makes her twice the size she really is.

And here she's flipped around and wielding her beak at the stick I'm using to prod her out of the nest. I moved her today to the dog pen to "break" her broodiness. She'll have to stay there until tomorrow night or Wednesday, and that should take care of it. It it doesn't, then we'll have to go to plan B.