The chicks are now 16 days old, and have grown so much! It was too cold to get them out of the brooder and weigh them, but we’ll do that soon, on a nicer day. I did need to raise up one of the heaters because the larger chicks had to duck and crawl to get in. I kept the other one down low because we still have smaller chicks. Their colors are definitely changing and differing. We have lighter shaded chicks and darker chicks. The feed store said that their chick source guaranteed 95% females. This should be interesting.

Well, at least digging trenches, which is how I spent most of my day today. We had rain this weekend, so the ground was soft and easier to dig, so I dug as much as a I could. I think the trench around the coop and runs is deep enough to bury hardware cloth to deter digging predators. I hope so. I’m beat. My health tracker says that I burned 2,900 calories today.

And here is another chick video. 5 days old!