The chicks are one week old. They are eating and drinking alot more! We have to refill the feeders several times a day now and they clog the waterers within a few hours. Chickens naturally scratch and kick stuff around. These little chicks kick so much stuff into the waterers and there's no room for water. We hung a big waterer at one end that hopefully won't fill up with stuff so fast.
We have had only one fatality, so we still have 79 chicks. After making it past this first week, I don't expect many will die, so we probably won't have the typical 10% failure rate. These little chicks are coddled in a way they don't get at commercial farms.
Last week it warmed up into the 80's and then over the weekend it rained. The warm wet weather is ideal for the garden. I put a bunch of my seedings in the front garden and they are all looking strong. The front garden looks so good.
The back garden looks different. This weather has been good for the weeds too. In the back garden the weeds are creating a ground cover only occasionally interrupted by garden plants. You can barely see the lettuce on the back left of this photo. But the soil is so muddy we can't get out there to pull weeds. Hopefully the ground will have dried out enough to weed tomorrow.
That lettuce looks big enough to pick. I'm looking forward to a salad to reward my weeding efforts.
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