Our Chicks are Growing Up!

Watch this video to see how much our chicks have grown!

We are starting to  notice our chicks’ fluffy appearance is slowly disappearing, and their fuzzy down is being replaced with feathers of a mature bird. Our chicks will soon be in the ‘tween’ stage! In chicken years, birds are at the beginning of the teenage stage around 4 to 5 weeks old.
Soon, our birds will no longer be called chicks. Instead the girls will be called Pullet and the young male chickens are called cockerels.  Their wattles and combs are also starting to grow larger and will be becoming a deeper red soon.  

Around week 6 we can start to introduce kitchen scraps to our chickens diet.  Some of Salt and Pepper's favorites are lettuce, tomatoes, and strawberry tops.  Click HERE to learn more about some common garden vegetables that are good for chickens.

Then around week 7 our chickens will be ready to go live in a coop outside!