April 3rd, 2009 we had a box full of baby chicks arrive! 25 of the Black Star variety, all females, so we will have a nice flock of egg layers! It has been a lot of fun and excitement since having these little chickies around! They grow so much every day and change little by little. They are now two weeks old and in one more week they will move outside to the new chicken coop. We are using an old tool shed and sectioned it off to make half of it a coop. The nesting boxes were built this last weekend at Indralaya's Easter work party. We put in three but may need more. I have heard that the chickens often take to one box and just rotate who is using it to lay their egg. They only use it to lay an egg. They sleep on roosting poles, all the birds lined up in a row! Well, there are several levels of roosts so they can choose the height they like best. Right now they have a roosting pole, made from a pruned limb from the apple trees. We plan to use these for the coop but bigger sized limbs because their feet will be bigger then! So go ahead and take a look at the video I made! I will update you soon on their progress and hopefully post a new video because they have changed significantly since this video was made!
