Chickens are outside!/Baby chicks are growing!

Hi and Welcome back to The Chicken Coop!
We have brought the chicken coop out, and the big girls are in it and they LOVE IT!
We built a run out of hardware cloth that connects to the coop and it works really well. We would have the babies out too, but... well here's the story of why we DID NOT put the little ones with the big ones: we put the babies out just on the grass next to the run and coop, so that they could see each other but still be safe, we did that about everyday for about 4 days and then we decided to try it and let the big girls out with the littles. Well sad to say they pecked them, like not to much but enough for me chicken mama to say "Okay that is enough!" So we are going to wait until they are eye to eye with the big ones and can peck back, yes it is kinda sad that our big nice chickens could be so mean.:( But they are just saying "hey this is my coop and my coop only!" And they'll get over it and go "oh maybe I should be nice and let you in the herd," it just takes time. :)

So here are some pictures of the chickens and the coop outside!

 The big chickens outside pecking the ground and looking for worms! YUM!YUM!

Still out digging...

There is the coop! The big chickens have gotten SO big!!

Chickens by the coop!

 

There is the coop and run together!!

Close up on the coop through the run.

Me talking to Lucy/Ricky.

( We still don't know what it is she/he hasn't crowed yet!

We are puzzled!)

Here are some pictures of the babies! They also have gotten so BIG. It is hard to believe that those tiny 3 day old fluff balls are now 7 weeks! Can you believe it!

Well here's some pictures of them outside. (Not with the big ones. :)



Big Bertha and Sybil looking at Lorsey. :)

Above: Bertha walking around the coop.

It is so funny to watch the babies outside they think they are all that!

So funny!!!

  

Bertha and Ethel figuring stuff out. :)

Well I hope you all have a blessed day!

Blessings, Ruthie Lynn a.k.a Chicken mama. :)

First day Outside!!

Hi and Welcome back to the Chicken Coop!!!
We decided to put the Chickens outside for a little while to see what they thought of it.
I put a couple logs around this one area so that we would have kind of a barrier so that if they did try to get out it would be easier to catch them. It really worked well, and they absolutely LOVED IT!!!
So J took a couple of pictures!!!

At first we decided to put them in the metal ring and see if they liked it,

they liked so we decided to take one out at a time as you can see in the picture above only two chickens are in there because we took Daisy out first.

She started to get lonely and loud so we took out Lorsey too.

We decided we wanted to try three at once so I got Lucy out, and we were thinking she would start running around, and showing how big and brave a chicken she is like she usually does,

but to our surprise she was nervous, and Lorsey our calmest chicken was even doing more then her.

And for the first time I could pick her up and she didn't fight me, she just sat and was like "Okay mom you can hold me" and I loved that!! :) But once she realized that all her peeps were with her  and that she was safe,she was back to normal.

I really like this picture above I smiled at her and she smiled back!!!

Lorsey and Daisy!

Lucy and L's feet!! :)

Lucy and Lorsey.

 

Well I hope you enjoyed the pictures!!!
God bless,
Ruthie Lynn a.k.a Chicken Mama.