Week 2 #adventuresingrowingfood

July 5 at pick-up in Tangent.

The Freedom Rangers are two weeks old as of today. They have been growing like crazy and really starting to pig out on the feed.

July 19, 2018

They will quickly outgrow the brooder, so I'm looking to get them ready to go outside. The fortunate thing is that the temperature isn't terribly cold at night. They would probably be okay - especially if we were to hang the heat lamp in the tractor at night. We would also provide some sort of shelter just to protect them from the wind.

Even though they are just two weeks old, it's crazy to see just how feathered out they are already. Most of them have their flight feathers already and quite a few of those have tail feathers coming on.

Another thing - I think I mentioned how athletic these little ones are...a few days ago one of them decided to jump on top of the waterer. I would say that the waterer is about 8-10 inches tall and there the chickie was just standing on top of it looking all proud of him/herself. Yesterday there were THREE.

Okay - it's time to move them out!

In order to get them out on grass we'll need to relocate and take away the Magpie's house. We knew it had to happen sooner or later. This has been the plan all along!

One last photo...

This little one was the one chick that had a brown stripe down her back - now I see she has eye make-up!

Farm Life is the Best Life!