Here are our girls! This picture is the first day we brought the chicks home. We had them in the house for a couple of weeks because I was afraid they would be cold at night. They were four or five weeks old when we got them, they are now at least twice as big! They wont be laying eggs until around Christmas, until then they are just getting fat eating all of our hundreds of grasshoppers. We have had a couple difficult learning experiences with our mobile coops. The first day they were out our dogs went crazy and broke into the coop and killed several of the chicks. It was horrible but we have made improvements and they are happy now running around inside. The dogs have calmed down, I don't know that they will ever all just be friends but we can hope! We have 86 chicks left and can't wait until the kids can come and name them. We are in the process of building a sandbag chicken coop. If anyone has experience with building with sandbags we would love a helping hand!
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