Lunch, our suspected roo is looking like quite the little dinosaur. You can't see enough detail in the pictures to appreciate the drastic change in the birds from day to day. They are getting bigger by the minute. Breakfast is adding feathers much slower than the others but she is catching up in overall size. Excuse the red picture. The heat lamp has a red bulb.
The girls are getting more comfortable with us. They still don't like being held but they will eat out of your hand, especially if offering them some fresh grass from the lawn. They'll hop out of the brooder and walk around the room but don't like to be too far from home. Dinner, the dark colored Easter Egger (EE) is the most friendly. She hops over to see you when you open the brooder and seems to be the most curious of the trio.
We would have loved to build the coop ourselves. There are so many cute and fun ideas out there. We aren't that handy so we've ordered ours from a small builder who uses sustainable lumber and Eco-friendly paint. It should ship this week from Michigan and take 3 or 4 days to get here. They will need the heat lamp until the night time temps stay in the high 60's consistently. A picture of the coop style is below. Ours will be white.
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