http://bonafidefarm.com/2010/06/25/cooping-in-a-heat-wave/ Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 10 Aug 2015 02:15:03 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://bonafidefarm.com/2010/06/25/cooping-in-a-heat-wave/comment-page-1/#comment-5880 Bonafide Farm - The chicks at four weeks: New trick Tue, 06 Aug 2013 14:44:21 +0000 http://bonafidefarm.com/?p=813#comment-5880 [...] For the past week or so, the chicks’ new trick is to fly out of their broody coop when I open the lid to feed them or fill their water. At first they were shaky and tentative, but now they explode up the second the lid’s lifted, and fly from rim to rim, occasionally overshooting their landings and meeting the concrete garage floor. It’s cute, yes, but it makes a pretty ridiculous scene as I try to grab each chick and toss it back into the coop before another flies out before I can shut the lid. It makes me wish I still had the big garage brooder my dad put together for the guineas. [...] [...] For the past week or so, the chicks’ new trick is to fly out of their broody coop when I open the lid to feed them or fill their water. At first they were shaky and tentative, but now they explode up the second the lid’s lifted, and fly from rim to rim, occasionally overshooting their landings and meeting the concrete garage floor. It’s cute, yes, but it makes a pretty ridiculous scene as I try to grab each chick and toss it back into the coop before another flies out before I can shut the lid. It makes me wish I still had the big garage brooder my dad put together for the guineas. [...]

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