new pics 10 weeks old

[lynda66]

well they enjoyed the bonfire, i made em a small ish temporary run so they couldn't cook themselves, and chucked em some grass, and slugs and worms ..... and they went to bed about half six, it was the funniest thing, the last 2 nights i've helped them up, and down in the morning, but this morning they were down already at 8am wanting brekkie, so they decided to put emselves to bed at 6.30, and they all wanted to be next to the window, took em about 15 mins to get emselves sorted, but think i need more windows lol, they kept pushing each other off, and pingu did her normal, wait till everyones lying down, then climb over the heads to get to where she wants to be, buttercup just left em all to it, and carried on scoffing lol..... so they are now all snoozing happily, and pingu was snoring when i came in, and i didn't burn the shed down

[Snadger]

well they enjoyed the bonfire, i made em a small ish temporary run so they couldn't cook themselves, and chucked em some grass, and slugs and worms ..... and they went to bed about half six, it was the funniest thing, the last 2 nights i've helped them up, and down in the morning, but this morning they were down already at 8am wanting brekkie, so they decided to put emselves to bed at 6.30, and they all wanted to be next to the window, took em about 15 mins to get emselves sorted, but think i need more windows lol, they kept pushing each other off, and pingu did her normal, wait till everyones lying down, then climb over the heads to get to where she wants to be, buttercup just left em all to it, and carried on scoffing lol..... so they are now all snoozing happily, and pingu was snoring when i came in, and i didn't burn the shed down

Are they on 'normal' chook food now Lynda?

[lynda66]

yup, i put em on layers when the chick crumbs ran out, i think about 4 weeks, but added wet liquidised cat biccies to it cos they need extra protein, and just added everything to their mash pellets, including liquidised veg ...... from a few days old they liked carrots parsnips cabbage broccoli turnips corn etc, but can't eat it whole so basically everything was liquidised till they could eat it and i've been feeding them about 4 times a day..... thing is, i can't get em to eat the pellets now without making them into a mash grrrrr they'll eat em covered in hot water but bury em if i try to get them to eat them dry trying to tell me something lol

they are eating much less now they are outside for some reason, maybe it's all the tasty soil they keep munching

[MaureenHall]

Awwwwwwwwwwwww your babies have all growed up now Never mind, you can have the incubator back in another 3 or 4 weeks

[lynda66]

yeah, it's very quiet in here now, i miss em ..... am thinking of taking a trip to the auctions next, but fingers crossed the allotment may be imminent, so ................. I CAN GET DUCKIES

[Glutton4...]

Awww Lynda the piccies are great! The Chooks have grown so quickly, and are lovely looking, you must be very proud of them

[lettucegrow!]

How do you tear yourself away and do all the other stuff that needs doing in a day? lovely pics!!

[Hans Mum]

lovely pics linda, youve done yourself proud there