incoming, incoming!

[estamets]

This is our run design. The home-made run is attached to a pre-fab coop with a tiny attached run. The back wall butts up to the brick wall that borders our property; it will be attached via the long 2"x4" and concrete anchors. The coop has a pop door, of course, and the entrance from the tiny run into the big run with also have a tiny chicken-sized door. Everything (including the roof, but not the ground) will be lined with 1/2" hardware cloth. The external boundary of the bottom edge will be lined with 16"x12" pavers. We found the people-sized door in our garage rafters when we bought our house. The roof slants from 5' tall in the back to 6'8" (the height of the door) in the front. The large run is 6'x10', and the tiny run is about 2'x7': a total of 80 sq ft for 4 ladies.

We'll be picking up lumber today, yay!

 

[estamets]

Two weeks old today!

Coconut the Welsummer:


Agatha the Speckled Sussex:


Harris the Partridge Rock (who refused to get off my hand):


Waffles the Easter Egger:


Harris wouldn't get off my hand, even to go back in the brooder, and this is where she ended up during Waffles' photo shoot:

 

[TwoCrows]

They are just adorable!!!

Thanks for sharing!

 

[estamets]

They are just adorable!!!

Thanks for sharing!

Thanks! Everyone loves baby chicks.

 

[estamets]

WARNING: INTENSE CUTENESS AHEAD! 19 days old, first recorded group dust bath. We spent a few hours in the newly-constructed run today, and this is how we spent 10-15 minutes of it:

 

[TwoCrows]

How adorable is this!!!!

Your babies are so cute. Thanks for sharing their first dust bath!!

 

[estamets]

How adorable is this!!!!    Your babies are so cute. Thanks for sharing their first dust bath!!

Thanks!

 

[ronmauldin]

Welcome from the Ocean State!

 

[estamets]

Welcome from the Ocean State!

Thank you!

 

[estamets]

Pictures are up from our three-week-old photo shoot! They are spending all day outside now, and sleeping in the garage with no heat lamp (the garage is 73-86 degrees at night). AND they look more and more like dinosaurs every day.

Harris the Partridge Rock:


Coconut the Welsummer (with a bruised wing???):


Waffles the Easter Egger:


And Agatha the Speckled Sussex: