The Great Chicken Adventure: Week 17

Another couple of weeks have quickly gone by. The chickens are as full grown as they'll get I suppose. I was looking though my blog posts the other day - starting at week one, and its incredible to look back at how much the chickens have grown. Theyre on 100% chicken scratch now - which is a five grain mix. I haven't gotten any eggs yet, but maybe they'll start around the 5 month mark (3 more weeks to go?). Their diet has been heavily supplemented with fruit and veggie scraps from the garden - mainly apples and zuchinis right now. I cleaned the chicken coop out yesterday, and replaced the old bedding with fresh bedding, I just used a mix of pine shavings and hay. The old bedding was incredibly dry - so unlike cleaning a cows stall! All the chickens went nuts exploring their clean house. Now I shouldnt have to clean the coop again until late fall. Ever since we butchered Bernie, Racing Strip has stepped into the place of dictator. He does a good job too - bossing everyone and scaring the living daylights out of my poor hens. He's next to go. Im torn though, he's developing such beautiful colours its a shame to kill him. Now that his tail feathers are green, he's growing in BLUE wing feathers!! What type of chicken is he?! Well even if he ends up in the freezer - Ill save his feathers. Maybe Ill make a collage with them... Well here's some pictures!

 Chicken version of "The Wall" by Johnny Cash