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Aww...that's great Nate. So glad you and your family are loving your chicks. A wonderful experience for your kids.
My chicks are 1 day old and are pecking and drinking. All I had to do was tap the dish and waterer and they came to my finger and they immediately started pecking and trying out the water. They are in our attached garage with heat lamp. It's only 12 c here this am.
I have 3 black, 4 white and 4 buff coloured
 
I had to rehome three little roos yesterday. I thought my husband was going to cry! He was terrified of chickens before we got our first ones and was completely against keeping chickens at all. Now he loves our little meep meeps!
They have a way of making you fall in love with them....
 
My little ones also got to go outside yesterday and again yesterday. No free ranging with our prey oriented Jack Russel mix. The new coop has it's own fence under a roof that must look like an entire world to them after the brooder box. We will free range after they are larger so the cat won't be so tempted and put Mags in the house when the chickens are out. I will try to introduce her to think of them as our's instead of her's. She might go for it, but certainly would not listen yesterday. Happy days when they get to run free. I see them practicing getting some air and they love pecking through the straw for the dried grubs I threw in there. I guess I am now a chicken mother for sure. This picture was taken just after the first two hatched. They are getting some tail feathers that look like little curls. I guess much like a fern's new leaves.

 
winchuck said:
My little ones also got to go outside yesterday and again yesterday. No free ranging with our prey oriented Jack Russel mix. The new coop has it's own fence under a roof that must look like an entire world to them after the brooder box. We will free range after they are larger so the cat won't be so tempted and put Mags in the house when the chickens are out. I will try to introduce her to think of them as our's instead of her's. She might go for it, but certainly would not listen yesterday. Happy days when they get to run free. I see them practicing getting some air and they love pecking through the straw for the dried grubs I threw in there. I guess I am now a chicken mother for sure. This picture was taken just after the first two hatched. They are getting some tail feathers that look like little curls. I guess much like a fern's new leaves.

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How old are your little ones and what are the temps there? I have so badly been wanting to let my babies out during the day. They are a week old and it's in the 90's here in OK.
 
Awww...cute. I have 2 day olds. They are fun to watch in the brooder - 11 of them.

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Jeanna Marie said:
I had to rehome three little roos yesterday. I thought my husband was going to cry! He was terrified of chickens before we got our first ones and was completely against keeping chickens at all. Now he loves our little meep meeps!
They have a way of making you fall in love with them....
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God love him! I sold 8 of my flock nearly a week ago to a friend's mother who didn't have the room for the standard chick order of 15-25, and didn't have an incubator. I cried when they left.
I've got: 3 EE roos, 1 BO roo, and 4-5 Aussie/Black Giant roos. Talk about noisy here in a few more weeks!
 

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