Aren't they Cute?
We took a class on raising Chickens today from
Seattle Tilth and brought home these three lovely Chicks with us. They were all born on Wednesday, which makes them 4 days old, and cuter than cute can be. They are hopefully all girls, and will start laying eggs in 4-5 months. There is a chance that one will be a boy, they are only 90% accurate when they sort them, but we won't know for a couple months at least, so we will jsut keep our fingers crossed.
To be clear, these are not pet chickens. They are cute and sweet, and will be very nice birds, but they certainly might end up on the table eventually. They are primarily for eggs, but if any of them are boys........ For this reason Tom insists that they not have names. He wants to call them 1, 2 and 3. I think they will get nicknames.
This is a
Black Australorp. I think she is the cutest. She is also very mellow and loves to be held. She will be a big girl, 7 lbs, and should be friendly and a good layer. As you can see in her picture, at 4 days they are startign to get a few big girl feathers on their wings. They should start coming in pretty quick, so i will keep you posted with lots of pictures.
This classic yellow chick is a
Buff Orpington. She will be the biggest hen in the group, but they are also typically very docile, and good layers.
This is her, sleeping, while still standing up. She is kinda like one of those
drinking bird toys that slowly leans down then hits the cup and pops up. She slowly tips forward then her beak hits the ground and she pops up.
The last little girl is a
Barred Plymouth Rock. Barred means black and white stripes. She is a production version, meaning she will be the smallest, only 5 lbs or so, but will lay the most eggs by far.
In other news we are starting to plan for our vegetable garden, so i will post once we start working on constructing the raised beds, and of course will be posting lots of cute Chick pictures over the next few weeks.
