After seeing how excited Bixby was with the chicks I decided to add an extra barrier for at least the first year. I bought a portable fence to put around the coop. It is 10 x 10 x 6 feet tall. The chicks can roam around in the pen and I won't have to worry about them with the dogs. Hopefully the chicks won't stick their heads through the fence!
Billina and Spot are the most independent of the 4 chicks, pictured here at ~ 6 weeks. They like to roost on the top edge of their box. Billina, aka Ms Congeniality, is the most sociable of the 4. She actually jumps up to greet us and wants her chest rubbed. She is starting to get her wattle now also. We really hope she is not a cockerel! They start trying to crow at about 5 weeks and since they are now 6 weeks and no cock-a-doodle-doos, it looks good. Scott loves her and says she loves him too so she wouldn't be reduced to the frying pan anyway but a rooster in the backyard would not make us very popular in the neighborhood. The hens are starting to out grow their box and it will be good to get them into the coop.
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