My oldest daughter was home for a visit. She lives in Japan currently where her husband is a sailor for the U.S. Navy. While she was home the chicks arrived. There was one dead on arrival and then two more died within the next 48 hours. I don't know why. The remaining five are thriving and their pin feathers are getting longer and they look less like fluffy chicks and more like young chickens. There is a brief cute fuzzy stage for chicks where you look at them and just go "AWWWWW". They are beyond that now. I believe I have two Freds and three Henriettas.
My niece, Jima, put together the Ware chicken house and run for me. I am very impressed with how easy it was for a pregnant woman to put together by herself. She put it together in less than 4 hours and I was able to move it from its staging location, our carport, to its permanent location in the new pasture I created for the older hens, Pick, Prissy and Penney. The new chicken house was a bargain at PetCo's online store and was about two-third the cost of the one I bought from My Pet Chicken.
I need to scrub the older coop and recondition it for the younger chickens. I will need to separate the younger chicks from the older ones for a bit before pasturing them together. Flock dynamics.
Pictures of everything soon.
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