The Chicks Are Growing Up

The six new chicks are nearly two months old now. They lived in a cage inside the house for the first couple of weeks and then I moved the cage out to the coop for another couple of weeks. Eventually we go to the point where we let the adult chickens out for the day and let the chicks have run of the coop and the supermax. They were afraid of the adult hens, with good reason, so we put up a cabbage crate out in their yard. The slats at either end are large enough for them to get in but too small for a hen to chase after them.

Last week we let the chicks, who are half the size of the adults out in the fenced garden area to get them used to the world out side and finally this weekend we let them out into the whole world with the hens. The new chicks stayed to themselves and the adult chickens didn't even regard them. They are all getting along just fine.

It's nice getting to this point of integration. Wait until they get their next rude awakening of what it is that roosters do.