Introducing: The Chicks!

This is a guest post by Peter and Sammy.

Dad told you about building the chicken coop. Now we'll tell you about the chicks who live in it.

First there's Peter, a brown wells (an interesting species) chick that has a gnarly peck. It sort of hurts to get pecked by Peter, because if she pets you its like biting. She chomps down on you.

Next up is Midnight. She is a black sex-link. Black sex-links have a way to tell whether they are boys or girls. It is by their color. Midnight is all black, with some brown on her breast, and that's how we know she's a girl. Midnight likes perches. She usually hops on the one inside the coop, but also the one on the outside. This morning Midnight tried to escape from the coop while we were giving them more food and water. A very crafty chicken. A jailbreaker!

Next up is Kirby. We don't know yet whether Kirby is a boy or a girl. Kirby is a Rhode Island White. Kirby used to be yellow, when she was a baby chick, but now (he or) she is white.

Next up is Meta Knight. Meta Knight is a Lakenvelder. Meta Knight likes perches as well. She is black and white. She is a racing chicken. Very fast. She has cool blue feet. (That's all I can say about her.)

Today we gave them a huge mountain of spinach (that had gone too bad for us to eat). In no time at all, the pile shrunk. They were also really thirsty this morning. So when we changed the water, they were pecking at it before we even put it down.

They really enjoy the coop. But watch out! They really poop a lot too! Their favorite foods seem to be green leafy vegetables and bread. Every night, we see them bunched up in a corner of the coop near the door. When we turn the heat lamp on, they stand up and start walking around the coop, as if the darkness was holding them down.

Boogie Boarding Boy

Apropos the post below, witness this video of the elder boy's instinct for waves.