May, 2008

About six weeks old, give or take a few days... I've lost count. They've taken pretty well to the coop.  We initially kept them locked inside for a couple days before letting them out so they'd know this was home.  After we started letting them out, the first two nights we found them huddled together on the ground outside the coop and we'd have to pick them up and put them inside before locking the door.  Janet was funny because she didn't believe me when I told her they'd be easy to catch after dark.  She was in disbelief when we walked up to them and picked each one up with little more than a few squeaky chirps.

Here they are getting acquainted with their new feeder, much larger than the little starter feeder.  Same with the waterer.

They don't wander far from the coop... yet.  We did put up a fence around the garden to keep 'em out of there.  Most of the time they spend in the field and just inside the woods near the coop.