3BuffsMama
Hatching
Hi all! So, I'm completely new to everything chickens and chicken cites online. I have three 5 week old Buff Orpington chicks (all girls), named Marigold, Matilda, & Buttercup. We are currently keeping them in their extra-large brooder indoors & taking them outside to play every day. Before I got them, if anyone had told me I'd come to love chickens like I love our other pets & would even consider them a part of the family, well, I'd have called them crazy. But now, I ADORE my girls!
They are all SO sweet & super affectionate. They love to be held and handled and insist on riding around on my arms & shoulders. They love to be pet, scratched gently, & talked to. And they are hilarious to watch! They even play w/ toys! We bought some little parakeet toys for them & hung them from long strings in their brooder & they play all the time. We even "made" some chick toys, like by cutting up some colorful bendy straws into three segmonts-they go crazy for them! They pick them up & throw them & chase each other w/ them.
I have a ton of questions, but feel like I've already written probably too much, so I will save them for later.
They are all SO sweet & super affectionate. They love to be held and handled and insist on riding around on my arms & shoulders. They love to be pet, scratched gently, & talked to. And they are hilarious to watch! They even play w/ toys! We bought some little parakeet toys for them & hung them from long strings in their brooder & they play all the time. We even "made" some chick toys, like by cutting up some colorful bendy straws into three segmonts-they go crazy for them! They pick them up & throw them & chase each other w/ them.
I have a ton of questions, but feel like I've already written probably too much, so I will save them for later.