Firstly, let me just tell you how difficult photographing chicks is... They are all in pens to stop them being food for Cookie, so as I walk around the pen looking for an angle, the Mummy Hen invariably walks around with me, staying in-between me and the chicks. Then there's the fact that the chicks never stand still even for half a second. Anyhow, thank you for putting up with the fact that these are not the best pictures...
This is the first lot who are now four and a half weeks old -- they have got quite a bit of their feathers now and it is looking like two of them -- one white and one black -- have got some of the markings of the bantam -- so hopefully we will end up with a hen who has the broody traits of a bantam and the size of a full sized hen!
And here are the new ones hatched on Thursday -- one white and four dark. Unfortunately the hen with the first lot is a bantam and this hen is not, so using the hens as a reference for comparing the size of the chicks is useless! Must go find my banana... :)
And just so they don't feel left out, here are some of this year's lambs -- starting to get chunky!
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