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Now 4 weeks old. The mama's took them on a little trip to the wooded side of the yard to scratch and peck in the leaves.

Updated pictures of our chicks - now 3.5 weeks old! I can't believe how healthy and happy these chicks are! The 2 moms were put together with the chicks a week ago and the chicks were let out into a fenced area last week also. We just opened up the fenced area 2 days ago since they...

Quote: So far the hens are okay - they are each in a box with their chicks at opposite ends of the fenced in area. I guess we'll keep an eye on them and if it becomes a problem then we'll put some fence in between them.

Quote: Daddy is a white leghorn. The Fayoumi hatched all her own eggs, which I find pretty amazing! Plus all of them hatched, not a single dud in her clutch. I still can't believe she has 20!! Our Silver Phoenix had some of her eggs and some EE eggs too.

Three more pictures This one has all the babies showing...... This one has one little baby peeking out of her wing The last picture is our Silver Phoenix with one of 3 of her babies - I love their "faceoff"

Well I double counted the Egyptian Fayoumi / Leghorn babies and realize that I counted wrong - Cleo has 20 babies that hatched!!! I'm so proud of my little mama!! Here are about 1/2 of her babies - the other half are still under her. She is so cute when she's all puffed up with her wings out...

We noticed that 2 of our less friendly hens have been absent the past few weeks - this isn't that unusual because as I said, they are our loners. Last week we found were they were hiding and that they each had a clutch of eggs - one in the hayloft of our goat barn, one in the rafters of the...