The Great Chicken Adventure: Week 9

Now that the chickens are on their "grower" feed - I have been noticing that they are eating a lot more. Theyre getting about 2kg of food per day, and that means Im going through a 20kg bag in 10 days. Its popular stuff! Theyre also getting a pile of grass every morning and weeds from the garden. Ive converted them from the auto feed waterers to 4L pails. Its so much simpler to fill the pails and much easier to keep clean. As far as growth goes, the birds have definitely grown in the last two weeks. Bernie is still the solo crower, none of the other roosters have started. Racingstripe and Rob's tail feathers are turning a beautiful dark emerald shade - probably the biggest chicken dream come true for me (especially since that isn't apt to happen). Their temperament continues to be good, Rob gets quite jealous if I have another chicken sitting on my knee, and he has to jump up on my other knee. They haven't been too impressed with the rain lately, and far prefer to be inside than out those days. Every day I change my mind on whose male and whose female - its incredibly hard to tell. Based on the comparison from Google images, Ive only got 3 males... wouldn't that be an anomaly of nature! And that would mean no Sunday fried chicken in the winter. Good thing Im getting 15 meat birds as insurance.

 <-- Rob the Rooster