Chicken Photos at Last!

Here are the girls:

(1 and 2) Our chicks - Daisy and Dottie (I think it's easy enough to figure out who is who)

Dottie and Daisy are four weeks old.  Right now, they reside under the safe haven of a heat lamp.  They stay inside the house in a plastic crate and will remain under a heat lamp for a few more weeks.  The point is to keep them warm, and out of the pecking reaches of the big girls.  

Little Daisy and Dottie will be egg bearing age in about twelve more weeks.  For now, they like to cheep and chirp.  Though they are precious and cute, but not terribly interactive: they're terrified of people.  If you were to stick your hand inside the sanctum of their plastic crate, they will freak out, chirp, then  try to jam themselves into the corner of the crate.  This is, unless, you bring them their favorite treat...yogurt!

Here they are, eating yogurt out of the spoon.  They go bonkers for yogurt!  Daisy LOVES treats!  Dottie, on the other hand, is the not the food whore that Daisy is.  If you bring some yogurt, Dottie "may" come near you, and if you put down the spoon in the food dish, she'll be more likely to come near you.  But she's likely to be done after a few gentle pecks.  

Yesterday - I changed the litter of the chicks' coop, and since the chicks HATE when you stick your hand into their world, I thought, maybe they would like a special treat, I went to the pet store and got them some (*gasp*) meal worms.  Meal worms, in case you didn't know, are beetle babies.  If you keep them long enough, the meal worm turns into a hard shelled beetle.  (EW!)  Anyway, when offered these disgusting treats, Daisy dipped her beak into the dish of meal worms.  She picked out a worm then put it into her living space.  She didn't eat it, like she just enjoyed the act of putting a worm in her mouth and moving it into another container.  She reached for another meal worm, did the same.  Eventually, I'm sure they're learn the joys of eating insects, but at four weeks, this may be too advanced.  

Anyway - to end this chicky post, here's a precious photo of chicks eating yogurt!  

(One cute tidbit about them eating yogurt - they dip their entire beak in to take a bite, and a few bites later, they'll rub their little yogurt-y beaks on the pine shavings on the floor, to rub the yogurt off their little beaks.  Precious!)

Chirp chirp for now!