Little's egg surrounded by Big Lady eggs The chicks are are no longer chicks and they are no longer even pullets! They are hens! At least two, possibly three, have produced wee little eggs. I knew these chicks grew faster than any of our previous generations, and they hit this milestone faster as well. To the best of my calculations, the first group of chicks we raised took 158-169 days to lay their first egg. The second group of chicks took 137-141 days, and the third took 1

Transferring Chicks into their New Home Muppets Fozzie and Kermit sang "Movin' right along we're truly birds of a feather, We're in this together, And we know where we're going." And now the chicks know their new home! By the end of May, the chicks were already getting too big for their cardboard brooder box, and we knew we needed to think about moving them. This set of chicks has grown faster than any of our previous groups. Their feathers came in swiftly. Within a week afte

6 Olive Egger Chicks We expanded our flock with the addition of six Olive Egger chicks! I picked them up on April 9. They were likely only a day old, and clearly adorable! They are light brown with dark brown stripes on their backs. The picture above is what they looked like in their travel box. These Olive Eggers have a Cream Legbar father and a Welsummer mother. I think our five 2-year-old Olive Eggers are of similar or the same crosses. They are sexed and should all be