EE Chicks First Day Free-Ranging (w/Pics!)

[bluey]

Our hen (Churkey), recently hatched 3 EE chicks from bugladyleah...

This past weekend, they had their first experience out of the brooder to free range while I built them a transitional coop until they are old enough to use the main coop.

Here is Momma standing guard as chicks get some tasty bugs under a bush:

Here are all three pecking in the gravel:

Here is Momma and babies runnig to the garage when they noticed that I started throwing out fresh corn kernels:

Here is my entire flock eating the fresh corn grown from our garden:

Of course, and as I posted on another thread, I did finish the coop. Here it is sitting beside our "Churkey Loft", that I built this past winter.

 

[Jen4]

Awwww very cute.

 

[ercky&perky]

They almost look like partridge, cute!!!

 

[redoak]

cute little chicks, I have 3 EE's about the same age

 

[bluey]

THanks.

From the many posts I've read it certainly seems more difficult to tell the sex of EE chicks. How old do they have to be before you can start looking for telltale signs?

Anybody with EEs know?