The CornishX chicks are now one week old today. WOW, how they have grown!!! Just look at that breast sticking out there!!
These things can eat!! And having 52 of them, they are sucking down the feed. I’ll keep them on 24 hour feed for the next week or so and then I’ll change them to 12 hours on feed/12 hours off feed to help slow the growth. I’ll be putting them in the tractor Julia and I built for them in about a week and a half on the 20th. Here are some pictures of Julia and I building the 2nd tractor.
We have the skids on and I’m getting ready to attach the en panels.
The end wall is now done ready to build the door and frame in the other end.
Attaching the door to the frame.
Getting the tarp on.
Snugging it down tight.
Towing it to the middle pasture where it will be for at least the first part.
Just waiting for the chickens to grow up!!
Here you can see how much the chickens have grown. Here is a picture I took last week when I brought them home. It is hard to tell but the chick was about 3.5″ tall at this point.
Here is a picture taken tonight. Yes, that chick is now almost 5″ tall. Pretty soon I’ll need a yard stick! LOL 
Here are all of them tonight as well. I love that 3 of them are roosting. None have made it to the higher roost yet! 
Here you can see the feeder I made for them because we were getting tired of going out ever few hours to fill up their feed. It is a 5 gallon bucket that I drilled 5 2″ holes in the bottom and the put the bucket in a plant tray. It is working out great!! Now I’ll probably only have to go out ever 4 or 5 hours to fix it (just kidding, I’m guessing it will last many, many days!!) I also built a waterer out of a 5 gallon bucket but I have that in with the laying chickens. I’ll take pictures of that later.
Now on to the other chickens. I am LOVING how the buff EE is turning out! She is BEAUTIFUL!!
Here is one of the Buff Orps checking to see if it’s safe to come in! That is the cuckoo maran out there with her.
Another Buff Orp just chillin!
I just added it up. Right now, we have 99 animals on property! 99!!! Can you believe it?! This Saturday we’re going to a BackYardChicken.com chicken swap up in Salem. I’m picking up at least 3 chickens, 1 Blue Laced Red Wyandotte and 2 Speckled Sussex. That will give us 102 animals!! WOW!! I can’t believe that we will actually own over 100 animals!! That is too cool!! (well in about 7 weeks you can take 52 animals off that list, we’ll still own them but they won’t be “living” on property at that point!)
