how quickly they grow!

Retrofitted dog crate as a chicken tractor

Brahma and Sicilian Buttercup

Sicilian Buttercup

Araucanas

the arrival

Seven baby chicks arrive June 6, 2007!!

Pat and chicks

Me and a blanket full of chicks

Sicilian Buttercup and Brahma

Sicilian Buttercup (speckled head), and a Brahma, the other is an Auracanas

Tanner's paws and a Brahma, an Auracanas, and a Buff Orpington...an introduction to the dog.

First home...in which they could escape!

Free-range in the house!

We had to put mesh around the cage

Say, goodnight!

chickens, chickens, chickens

I purchased the chicks from the Issaquah Grange on June 6th, during my lunch break. They had about seven varieties, and I chose four of the seven. I know, I know, we're only supposed to have 3 in the city of Seattle...but if anyone asks, my neighbor has agreed that one is his.

We have 1-Buff Orpington named Alli, 1-Auracanas (Easter egg chicken) named Lucy, 1-Buff Brahma named Mary, and 1-Sicilian Buttercup named Molly. We are also raising three additional chicks for my friend while she coyote proofs her property up on Whidbey. So ya, that's 7 chicks!

We initially started out with them in the house, but soon realized that wasn't going to work...they do smell, even if you clean the cage each day. So we migrated them to the garage with the heat lamp.

They grow fast! We added another cage to the first cage and created a chicken duplex. That held us over for about a week! Last night we retrofitted my dog's metal frame crate into a chicken tractor! We still have one cage attached to the crate and they hop between the two. The crate has an exposed floor and they love to scratch in the grass!