The chickens are close to 2 months old now. Blue and Red are still larger than Green and Orange. Blue and Red's faces are now filled with feathers and looking more mature, but Green and Orange are not too far behind now. Based on the lack of saddle feathers on any of them, I am assuming that they are all young ladies.
Earlier in the week we had torrential rains and 60 degree (F) weather making for a miserable muggy start to the week. By Thursday, things were drying out and warming up. Now the temps are in the 90s (F) and we were a bit worried with the extreme weather changes so quickly that the peeps would be having problems. Yet, they seemed fine today.
With the design of the coop, the girls have plenty of shade all day long. The young un's are feasting on all types of ants, spiders and flies that haphazard into the pen/run.
Here are some pictures from today showing the way that we finished the ramp up into the coop as well as where we ultimately hung the feeder to keep it dry during the rain storms.
I apologize for the blurries. A few turned out well enough that you can see the feathering on the faces of Blue and Red. The first two photos are of Green. She tends to be the least camera shy. And, by the way, that "second eye" on the second picture is actually the ear hole to the right and slightly below her eye... LOL. It is the way her feathers are coming in that makes her ear look almost like an eye :) (My apologies for not cleaning the ramp before the photos.... But, it is a chicken coop, after all!)
