The Chicks Are Growing Up

Our little chicks are growing up.  They've "feathered out" - lost their downy soft baby fluff and grown in full grown chicken feathers.  To celebrate their new feathers, we've moved them from their little plastic crate that was inside, to a newly sectioned off part of the chicken coop.   And little by little, they're wandering around in the chicken run.  

Now the reality is, the little girls are terrified of the big girls.  They spend their time outside scurrying along the perimeter of the run, scared.  Thank goodness they have one another.  They are inseparable when terrified.  So when the big girls get too close to the little ones, you hear a series of frantic cheeps, which is coupled with a lot of running around.  

And now that they're bigger, there's less opportunity to pick them up out of their crates and taking them to the chicken coop for their exercise.  It'll just be a matter of time before there is no reason to pick up the chicks anymore, just like there's no reason to pick up my big girls anymore.  Sad.  The little chicks are growing up so fast.  

No new photos yet - my digital camera has been on the fritz since sand got in the lens from the GA coast!  But here is a wistful photo of my little girls, in their infancy.