Chickens

The baby chicks are about 6 weeks old now, and growing big.  Feathers are coming in beautifully and we are even able to tell if some of them are roosters or hens.  Sadly many of the full size chicks are looking to be roosters so they will either find new homes or be dinner.  In the spring with the Blue Laced Red Wyndottes start hatching we will place another order for pullets only instead of straight run so we won't have to worry about as many roosters popping up.  The picture is one of our bantam chicks.  She is a partridge cochin bantam.  Very pretty feather pattern.  Cochin means that she will have feathers on her feet and bantam means half size for those unaware of what all that meant.  Looks like all three blue cochin bantams are roosters so hubby said I could order some full size blue cochins in the spring.  I really love the blue coloring on chickens.  Hubby said the sky in this pictures looks fake, but it isn't, it's just beautiful Texas sky.