Good Friday is here, which means the chicks are one week and one day old today!  They are doing very well, no losses yet!!  Fingers crossed I won't lose any.  Mind you, I have learnt a lot over the past 6 months or so!  All the Amberlinks are either gone, with the last dozen ordered and paid for!  And going out to 2 different homes next week and the week after!

I didn't weigh the chicks yesterday, as it was VERY cold and VERY windy, but I weighed them this morning, and from a starting weight of about 40gms, they are now between 80 and 100 gms each!  so they are doing well!  I think the Amberlinks were between 65 and 80 their first week.

This little JA757 was 100 gms

This coloryield weighed in at 80 gms

and this Mastergris was also 80gms!

I had a lovely couple bring their children round to see the remaining Amberlinks today, and to learn a little about keeping chickens.  I'm no expert by any means, but I love talking about my chooks, and its lovely seeing children taking an interest too!  And they have promised to have 4 of my next lot of point of lays, and also, maybe a couple of oven ready's!!!

The chicks are really rushing around the brooder shed now!  And they've picked out one of the feed troughs to be their perch, so they sleep on it at night!  Today, one even went to sleep with her head INSIDE the trough!  They are eating so much now though, and I can't wait to get a proper feeder in there for them, but they aren't really tall enough yet to reach over the rim!  But hopefully next week.   Their wings have grown so much this past week though!  You wouldn't credit it!!!