picture by Audrey Pavia
This fiddling matter will be all grown up presently , and I ca n’t look to watch out the process .
Mychicksare now almost 2 week older , and I ca n’t think how fast they have grown . A daytime of so after hatching , the little one could n’t skip 2 inch from the external pen of thecoopto the interior . Now , they are the sizing of dunnock and are capable to jump tall buildings in a single bound .
Well — not quite . But a twosome of days ago , I overhear two of them outside the hencoop . The only manner they could have bewilder out was by jumping more than a metrical foot to the roosting pole , then jump from there out of the open trap doorway on the cap of the coop , and then down to the ground .
When I first get a line them out of the coop , I panicked and put them back in the hencoop . Their ma was not happy with the round - up , and came at me with wings outstretched and plumage puff up up . I would have left them alone , but I just could n’t see how they could possibly jump up from the reason back to the cap of the coop .
After a couple of days of catch them and put them back in — and upset momma terribly in the process — I decided to leave it alone and see what pass . They may have come out the last couple of days and then survive back in on their own , because I did n’t notice them out when I went to lock the hencoop up tonight .
But I did acknowledge something else . The momma biddy was sit on the roost celestial pole with the other chickens , instead of on the floor of the coop , where she could normally be incur with her babies . Tonight , her wing were partially stretch , and on cheeseparing feeling , I could see her chicks were tuck neatly underneath them .
This was hands - down the cutest affair I ’d ever seen . I run and got my camera , and begin snapping aside as the poulet looked at me with distinctly puzzled looks on their faces .
So now that I know my chick are old enough to fall and go out of the coop , the real fun will begin . As momma hen starts take her brood farther and farther from the safe of the cage , she will pop learn them how to bechickens . She ’ll show them how to chafe in the horse stalls for rainfly eggs . She ’ll show them how to take rubble baths . She ’ll learn them that when I call“chick , chick , chick!”,it means bite are being doled out .
As the babies rise , they will start to take their place in the hatful . Momma will oppose them until they are near full - grown , keeping the other chickens from boss them around too much . But the day will come when they will on their own , and full - fledged flock member in their own right .
At the rate they are growing , this will all occur very quickly . I ca n’t wait .
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