please help day 18..PICS. They've grown up. 16 week update post #318

[kathyinmo]

Maybe that's why everyone thought your Light Sussex were looking older?

So true, they just grow up so quickly! So, when is your next hatch date?

 

[guinea fowl galore]

when we get back from tasmania. which should be the middle to end of march.
what I am hoping to hatch is light sussex, silkies and silver laced wyandotte bantams

I am looking forward to having more babys but the stress of looking after the eggs before and while hatching is not looking very fun

I think I may have over done it with my first hatch. Yes you heard me OVER DONE something, this is the first and maybe last time I have ever ( admitted to ) over done something. hopefuly I will be in the hatching spirit when we get back from tasmania

 

[guinea fowl galore]

well, the chicks are doing great and I have taught them and the guineas to go back and forth to/from their outside coop to I am quite proud of myself, aham, I mean the chickens.

 

[kathyinmo]

Sshhhhh, never admit that you have overdone anything! LOL

Moderation is a fatal thing; nothing succeeds like excess.~Oscar Wilde.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.~W. Somerset Maugham


How's that coop build coming along?

 

[guinea fowl galore]

I love those guotes.
The coop is going nicely bt it is raining now so we can't get much done.

 

[kathyinmo]

I enjoy building. I worked on our coop, and did alot of it by myself. See the ventilation I made sure we have ....
This is before finishing ...

Here is one side finished ...

 

[guinea fowl galore]

Thats a great coop, I love it.

Here are some photos of our chicks at 6 weeks old.

Heads down tails up.

Pom Pom, our girl.

Cheap Cheap our handsome man ( rooster )

 

[kathyinmo]

Awwww, they are so cute!

You are really enjoying them, aren't you? They sure have grown alot!

I am sure you are looking forward to moving them into the coop. Moving day is such fun!

 

[M To The Maxx]

They are growing fast!

 

[guinea fowl galore]

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I am nervous actually

I guess this is what it feels like to have your child move out of home ( exept a much milder version ). But we do have a better plan now, you see we are going away for a bit less then a week and we were really rushing trying to get the coop finnished before we go away so we could put the older ones in there and have somebody looking after them all. I didn't want to do this because I feel that I should be there when they are spending their first night in the coop incase something happens or more likely some of the guinea fowl don't figger out how to get into the coop and get cold ( they are acually that stupid ). but now all the chickens and guinea fowl are at my aunts. I am really thankful to her, I can just imagin how she would have felt when we rang up this morning asking if it was alright if we droped off our 21 chooks/guinea fowl ( one of them sick ) to her place for her to look after, and of course she said yes. shes such a great auntie

and yes I am enjoying them so much, they are my babies. If ever I am already having a bad day and they don't co-operate or I open the cage and they fly away, by the end of it all I am ready to kill someone ( like today when it took us 2 hours to catch a guinea fowl that decided to run away into the thick bush ) all they have to do is look at me that way ( I am sure everyone who has chickens knows that look ) and cheap a few time as if saying "oh I am sorry, we didn't mean it" or it could be "sheash, what got into her, what a temper she has. too bad our latest escape plan didn't work, oh well, next time" anyway whatever it is they are saying it makes me realize that they are just innocent silly birds and they didn't mean it ( or did they ) and I still love them and killing someone really isn't going to help. Then I feel bad and go hug them all.

Chickens, gotta love em