Moving Day!

Today the chicks finally got to move out of the washtub (oops, I meant to say brooder) and into their intermediate housing. They'll stay here for several weeks-basically until they won't fit anymore and hopefully have graduated to adult food. It's actually a rabbit hutch, but it works very well for raising up chicks.

The Baby House is located inside Cluckingham Palace, which is a High Security SuperMax facility. It has a cozy bedroom with plenty of room for growing chicks yet small enough for them to cuddle up and stay warm on the soft shavings. They will pass through an elegant archway into a spacious dining hall with room for half a gallon of water and about three pounds of chick food. It's set up for easy cleaning, and as importantly, the youngsters will be in full view of the adult inhabitants. In a few weeks when the chicks are released there'll be little or no feather picking or pecking.

Here's some pictures of them exploring their new home; they look pretty excited to be big kids now: