Chicks First Day Outside

Enjoying the great outdoors

The chicks are getting big and I have been seeing them getting restless in their brooder lately, so today while I was working on their new home, I decided to let them spend the day in the run. I put up a piece of plywood where the run door will go while I worked on the doors for the run and coop. They had a great day eating grass, chasing flies, scratching in the dirt and flapping their wings. They never sat still all day long. When I gathered them up to put them back in their brooder, they all settled in together under the light. The girls are getting more used to us and moving them outside and then inside helped to get them even more comfortable. They really love the dried mealworms that I used to lure them to me so I could scoop them up.

I got lots of work done on the two doors today and I will be heading to the store tomorrow for door hardware, plywood and 2x4s to hopefully get closer to finishing the chicken castle. I hope to get the doors and roof done tomorrow so the chicks can move into their new home this weekend and I can clean up my shop.