About Our Chicks Week 1

By Joshua

A few years ago, Mom wanted to start chicken farming though we lived in Virginia Beach, VA and it's not allowed inside city limits so we couldn't start... yet. But now we can since in the city of Marysville, WA the only rules are:

1. You can't have a rooster (so it doesn't fertilize the egg(s) that will make chicks.)
2. You can't have more then 6 chicks/chickens.

So a day before I wrote this we got 5 chicks and they were these types:

• An Easter Egger
• A Blue Orpington
• A Black Orpington
• A Cream Legbar
• A Rhodebar

Our chicks!

We don't have names for the chicks yet and we forgot which is which (except for the Orpingtons) but we do have their heights!

• Cream Color is 4 in
• Dark+Stripe is 3.5 in
• Red+Stripe is 3.75 in
• Dark Orpington 4.5 in
• Light Orpington 3.5 in

Notes about the different chicks:
All: Extremely Cute and Cuddly! They're 5 days - 1 week old
Cream Color: Especially cooperative and normally stays out of the area that the others are in.
Both Striped: Loves jumping into the food until we changed it from a bottom of a red solo cup to a co-op bought feeder.
Orpingtons: Extremely fidgety (when we measured them they kept running away!)