There has been unseasonably cold weather recently and it looks like it will be here for a good week or two (frost on my aloe!) so we are just going to have to wait to have to wait (darn the luck!) for the barred rocks that we wanted to be able to come out of the brooder.
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| Frost on everything! I thought this was California? |
We have not equipped the coop for any sort of heat source. The chickens we want are about 2 1/2 months old. So plans were made to come back in a few days and get those birds!
It took a bit longer then that.... did I mention that this is procrastination ranch?
Delays aside, we did it! We decided on four Barred Rocks and two Ameraucanas. They were all around the same age (hatched late Sept/early Oct) and were young enough that they would grow up around us. The kids could hardly contain their excitement!
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| Getting use to their new home! |
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| Come on out ladies, we're here! |
We emptied the bags carefully into the coop and watched as the little gals ran around. They took to the food and water right away, no problems!
I noticed that one of the Ameraucanas was the smallest of the group. Other then that I could not tell them apart at all!
The four Barreds all looked the same to me, but I figured that their personalities would come about as we all spent more time together.
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| Out getting some sun :) |
This was it, our first step towards our little homestead. What we had talked about and planned for years was coming to fruition. It is a nice sense of accomplishment, we put our minds to something and made it happen.
Something that was surprising; the chickens were still cheeping! The little noises I had been expecting to hear coming from the yard was not the bok bok cluck, but rather a tiny high pitched kind of squeak! It was the. cutest. ever.
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