After a Weekend Away.

We were able to enjoy a couple of days at the lake house with my parents and left the chickens at home to fend for themselves. When we arrived home we were shocked at how they had grown! They are REALLY starting to look like hens now!

I think I would call this stage of their lives "little girl" stage. They are growing more and more independent, but still love to snuggle on our laps. All five of them fell asleep on my lap the other day (note: that's a lot of chicken for one lap!).


In this picture you'll also be able to get a peek of the brooder where they've been living in our basement (generously loaned by the Hurst family). In order to make sure they had enough food while we were away we constructed the feeder seen in the picture out of 2 trader joes coffee cans.


Some new pictures at 4 weeks:


Alice, Speckeled Sussex




Francis, Dominique




Maggie, New Hampshire Red




Lizzie, Delaware





They just love to preen themselves!