7 weeks

The gals are now 7 weeks old!  WOW!  Can you believe they have been with us 7 weeks already??  

Vanilla perched on Mike's back - she loves roosting... the higher the better!

I have plenty of photos to post, and will do so this week.  We remodeled our media room and since then, I haven't been as good about uploading my digital camera since it is more of a chore now.  I need to get better at timely chicken picture posts... sorry.


Some news on the chicken front:
* The 10 chicks are doing well.  All are completely feathered, except "Fluffy Fluffy".  She is nearly feathered, but taking her good old time.   We don't know what this means, and we are hopeful it isn't a sign that Fluffy is a he instead of she - LOL.  (Would be our luck, wouldn't it?)

A few shots of Fluffy Fluffy

*The gals are beginning to cluck - the peeps are no longer.  

Double Stuff hanging out, (with Fluffly Fluffy next to her)

*They enjoyed a game of "spill our water every chance we get" this past week!  ARGH!  Talk about a nightmare - soggy cardboard, stinky basement, and the instant desire for them to roll around in the wet wood shavings and "dust" themselves! (Anyone who has tried to crate train a puppy, as we did with Kitty, would understand the endless cleaning and dwindling patience involved.)  Well, that was enough to drive us to drink! We couldn't keep up with drying out their box, keeping shavings fresh, and airing out the smell that was wafting through the house, etc... so I outsmarted them Friday night and sent Mike to Tractor Supply for a galvanized fount after work.  Now with 2 gallons of water weight, the gals can no longer tip the fount and make such a mess!  Ta-da!   (One of those learning curves I wish would have been thought of instantly, instead of 3 days into the new game... but hey, that is what we get for being rookies!)

Cuddling in for the night... (a peak at the new water fount that they haven't tipped -yet! lol)

Cuckoo-de-Coo

Glitter and Goldi(locks)

Tiger with a glimpse of Secret (the black hen)

The fence posts are all in the run, so the fencing installation is slated to begin tomorrow, weather permitting and it looks like the girls will be outside at exactly 8 weeks of age!  They would have been out sooner, had the weather cooperated, but we will take what we can get!  =)