This entry is a photo montage of our standard chickens, weeks 4-7,
as well as our newest additions to the flock, Silver Sebright bantams.
Below: We Are 4 Weeks Old!
At 4 weeks of age, the standards started to become more confident in their perching abilities :)
And at 4 weeks of age, the standards outgrew our 300 gram capacity scales!
Below: We Are 5 Weeks Old!
At 5 weeks of age,
the standards had absolutely no problem perching or investigating :)
Here I am with two of our three Rhode Island Reds at 5 weeks of age.
At around 6 weeks of age,
the standards started to fly around their classroom enclosure.
Below: We Are 7 Weeks Old, and ready to go outside!
Friday, June 1st, 2012:
6th and 7th grade students release the standards into their new outdoor home!
All smiles inside the run :)
Welcome Home!
A toddler enjoys watching the standards investigate their new home during the annual school picnic.
Below: Ethan next to the standards inside their fully enclosed run.
The coop is closed off, and will be finished within the next week.
The following week, all nine of the standards
were banded with a plastic leg band.
Below: on May 23rd, we welcomed a little group of 2-day-old
Silver Sebright bantam chicks to Circle of Life Gardens!
Welcome Home!
Below: a student holds five Silver Sebright bantam chicks at one time...
they are literally half the weight
of what the standard chicks weighed at their age!
When fully grown,
the bantams will be approximately half the size of the standards.
Introducing: Victoria, Lady Joanna, Willa, Temperance, and Claudius Lauden (who passed away).
Below: We Are One Week Old! (And very sleepy!)
Below: One Week Old Silver Sebright bantams
Below: the day after I took the above photo, we added
one more chick to the flock,
who we named Green Bean after the green
mineral marking on her leg.
Two
days following Green Bean's arrival, we delivered Willa and Temperance
to a farmer friend as a thank you for her mentorship throughout the
year.
We had to order a minimum of 5 guaranteed female Silver Sebright bantams.
Circle of Life Gardens is permitted 12 hens.
Green Bean, Victoria, and Lady Joanna will join the nine standards outside in early July 2012.
They will each receive a plastic leg band.
Here's to our avian pioneers!
