Just had to come back and post some pics of the hens and chicks. The babies have gotten brave enough to fly up and over two straw bales so we went ahead and let them out of their pen and the coop. We put Jack (the dog) in the house to give them a day or so of getting used to free ranging. You can see them coming to the back door covered with chicken wire to get a look at me.

Then a couple of them were brave enough to venture out of the coop.




I took lots more and then snapped some of the hens resting under a tree while the rooster guarded them but I need to get dinner started and get ready for work. I'll post those tomorrow on the gallery page of the site.