Chicks getting feathers very fast.....Blindy RIP

I’ve added more photos to the gallery of the chicks who are growing up rapidly. Doris has 13 in with her and Cagney and Lacey are in the brooder in the garage. Sadly Blindy took a turn for the worst and died last Thursday. I think he may have been trampled a bit by the the other “garage chicks” on Wednesday night as he was suddenly unwell. He had a short life but he experienced a lovely mum in Doris - some nice days in the sunshine at Easter, and was managing to grow some little wing feathers at two weeks old. Sadly it wasn’t to be and we had a little funeral on Sunday for him.

The rest of the chicks are out of the coop first thing in the morning like greyhounds out of racing traps. They are on everything and practising little chest bumps with one another. Doris is still doing a lovely job keeping them all warm see the pic of her showing how wide she can go….