Remember the cute chickie baby pics I posted about 3 months ago? Well the chicks grew into teenage hens in the meantime. Above you see Elsa, our blue feathered Ameraucana, also called Easter-Egger because they lay colored eggs. Below you have all three: Elsa the Ameraucana, Cinderella the Rhode Island Red who will lay brown eggs, and Snow-White, the fat and feisty leghorn who wasn't feisty and fat at all after she injured her leg, only a few days old. We had to take her out of the brooder in a separate box so that the other two won't be able to pick and step on her. Her leg healed and she became the biggest hen of all three. She also won the pecking order against the Ameraucana. All three are buddies again after we set them out in the chicken coop. The leghorn follows me and is not afraid at all because she is used to me picking her up when she was hurt. In a few more months they will start laying eggs. Gilroy allows to have up to six chickens in the backyard per city ordinance. We keep the limit at three so that they have room in their coop.
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