The Great Chicken Adventure: Week 13

There hasn't be much to report on the chickens over the last couple weeks. They continue to grow steadily and their feathers are filling out in a most beautiful way. They have been wonderful little composting machines for me - I take them treats very often. They enjoy weeds from the garden, bread crusts, cull berries and fruit and veggie ends. They also thoroughly enjoy burnt cookies (at least someone can enjoy them)! I've started switching them off their grower feed and right now theyre eating a diet of 50% scratch grain and 50% grower. I wanted to do this so that any medication from the grower feed will be (hopefully) out of their system at butchering time and when the hens start laying eggs. I started them onto the scratch grain at 25% the first week, now 50% the second week and next week they will have 75%, until the grower feed is gone. The nest boxes are finally in the hen house, but nobody has so much as tried going inside the boxes. Perhaps when they start laying they will make use of the boxes. They do however, enjoy sitting ontop of the next boxes, and 6 have ditched the roosting poles at night and choose to roost ontop on the next boxes. As the garden work increases, I haven't been socializing the birds as much. They are still friendly, but they only swarm me now if Im bringing them treats, not if Im whistling a song to them, haha.

<--Racing stripe and his coat of many colours.