From chicks to pullets

We've had the chicks at our house for the past couple of days and they are definitely entering that mangey stage.

They are losing their fluff before our eyes. You can see it in the air. Their little feathers are coming in on their wings and they flap them all the time. We kept the lid off for a lot of the time and Annie will roost on the edge of the bin the whole time it's off. This makes Moontha very nervous. You can tell they all want to be up there.

We took the chicks to pre-school and Emerson did great. If anyone wants the visuals we created for this, it worked great. I printed out grown up pictures of each of the birds and then put the name we gave them on each along with their breed. The kids asked great questions and Emerson kept the visual show going by perching each of them on the edge of the bin and holding chicks for his classmates to pet. It was adorable.

William is used to them being around and is sort of bored with it all.

Emerson is not.