Pennsylvania weather is killing me.
These chickens should have moved outside weeks ago.
They are 6 weeks old now... this photo is a over a week old and they are so much bigger already.
I'll try to get some new pics later today.
We actually had snow this weekend with temps dipping down in the teens. Wednesday is looking like a promising eviction day. The day temps should stay up in the higher 40s and 50s with nights not dropping below 30.
They are fully feathered now and look like miniature chickens. They learned to peck holes through the box in the photo so we had to rig up a cubby for them in the attic. There are chickens in my attic. LOL And they are so bored. I feel bad for them. Two more days and they'll be free-ish... :) They have to stay in the coop a couple days to learn it's their home.. but then free free free at last.
I plan on doing some posts about what I've learned, but the most important that is easy to sum up in this post: If you live where the winter might never end, don't order your baby chicks for the end of February... Wait until the end of March :)
--Unless you have some huge brooder in your basement or a barn where they can comfortably reside until the weather is right. OR you can run heat in your coop. I don't have easy access to electricity outside so that is a no-go for us.
It's still been fun, but all consuming to keep them safe and happy in my house for 6 weeks. The cleaning really never ends after week two, also --so yeah, I haven't had much time for Steemit or anything else.
TWO. MORE. DAYS :)
