Went outside today! Lots of pics and come share your own!

[a123andpoof]

We have 15 black sex links, 3 reds, and 2 premiums or straight runs! They are almost 4 weeks old! Today my dad built a moveable pen for them! It will be able to hold around 4-5 full grown chickens. Today I took the girls outside for the 3rd time, they love it out there! Please feel free to post pics of your own baby chicks inside or outside!

The Pen

Please be a frizzle!

Matilda please tell me she is not a he!

Any name suggestions for this one?

Yum! Shoe!

The puppy just wants to play!

Please Please Please Please Please oh Please be a pullet

And all the chicks XD

 

[Kassaundra]

How does your wiener dog do w/ the chickens? Mine has to be kept seperate he will eat them, but he doesn't try to go through the fence.

 

[FRlEDeggs]

The Welsummer (where you said Please Please Please Please Please oh Please be a pullet) is most definitely a pullet! Looks like my Welsummer did who I know is a pullet

The females have a dark V on the head and dark "eyeliner"

 

[a123andpoof]

The dog does pretty good. She can get a little rough so we have to keep a close eye on her, but she really likes them! And Matilda loves to go and peck at her when she isn't trapped XD

Yay! I was hoping she would be a puller she is getting some really pretty feathering!

 

[sunshineyarns]

Is that a Speckled Sussex in the second to last picture? That looks just like mine --- and we weren't 100% sure what she was.... came from a mixed bin of pullets that had SS, Buckeyes and something else I forget

 

[a123andpoof]

I don't know! A lot of people tell me speckled sussex, but I have gotten other people telling me diffrent! I am really hoping for the specked sussex!

 

[KellyS]

She looks like our speckled sussex. That's what we ordered specifically

 

[gryeyes]

Your puppy looks SO much like my Zorro did when he was a pup!

Zorro never saw a chicken in his life until he was 11 years old and I got my first chicks. Unfortunately, when they were still quite young and not yet laying, he chased one into a corner, grabbed it and shook it to death before I could get to them. Over the next couple of months, he killed two more, mostly because I wasn't vigilant enough. On the plus side, he was an excellent discoverer of weak spots in the chicken run fence! So I spent another three months training him. He had to be chained when I was busy and he wanted to be outside with me, which mortified him. Over a period of time, using the garden hose, correcting him, and chaining him - gosh I felt awful about it! - he learned the chickens were not to be chased or bothered.

It also helped that the flock grew up and the chickens got bigger.... And then the rooster kicked his butt. Then the two ducks billed him every chance they got.

He is now safe around the flock. He will wait, and then walk through a group of chickens with his head low and his tail not tucked, but not wagging, until he gets into a chicken-free zone.

My other, younger doxie observed all this, and avoids the poultry at all costs. He doesn't want to get yelled at!

 

[a123andpoof]

I hope so! They are really pretty birds!

 

[a123andpoof]

Yeah, we keep her close to us, and tell her to be nice and leave it when she gets a little rough. But we have had a few times were she chases them cause she thinks they are playing.