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Update on hatchlings from settings two and three. Mum-mum cleaned out our brooder today, and removed the partition so we have more room. It’s great – we love it this way. She also fitted some perches for us to play on. Dad thinks his design is pretty good, but we’re all still waiting for him to finish our teenage quarters…. The big chicks are out in the big girls run now. They’re roosting like grown up girls, and I hear that mum-mum has put egg-mum Issy and Missy in with them now! They needed a break from the roosters…
7-weeks-old
Egg-mum Fifi has gone broody. She’s really determined to stick with it too. Mum-mum has tried to disrupt her efforts by taking her off the nest at night but she keeps going back. Of the three eggs under her, mum-mum thinks one might be growing. I wonder if she’ll be a good mum??
The big chicks thought they’d perch on mum-mum this afternoon… poor mum-mum!
Gidday, I’m one of mum-mum’s “hatch-three” chickies. She thinks I’m pretty cute. Well, I am… I guess 🙂
Mum-mum been a bit distracted the last few weeks and ignoring us. We squark when she picks us up, and she can’t believe the fuss we make. She’s been feeding us chick starter mash, and today… she discovered that our crops are full as a goog – I don’t believe she thought they could get so full! He-hee. Well, they can!
Me and my chicky-siblings are all pretty much the same colour. Some of us have some yellow around our necks, but not much – mum-mum is very curious about what colours we’ll end up (see http://forum.backyardpoultry.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=7969908).
She’s also hoping we’re girls too, because she’s got no idea what sex the last lot was and is concerned that six of the remaining eight might ALL be roosters! LOL – time will tell.
the grass is greener 