Chicken update

A week or two behind schedule, a picture or two of the chickens! Not nearly chick-sized anymore...we got them just before Valentine's Day, so they're about seven weeks old at this point.

And just for reference, here's a first-week picture from back in February:

That's the same bird (creatively known to us as "Whitey") as in the first picture up above.  So they've definitely sized up plenty of times over.  We really wanted to get them outside by this point in the year, but the weather has been so cold this spring that their move has been delayed for weeks.  According to our electric bill (as good a source as any, I guess), this March had an average temperature 11 degrees colder than March 2012.  So it is a slow spring.....guess that's Ohio wants to put the groundhog on trial.

Other than that, the slow spring is worrying but not necessarily horrible.  I did find a few tomatoes out in the greenhouse this morning with some frost damage on them, so we'll lose a few more tonight when it dips down into the low twenties again.  There should be enough extras to make up for it, though...most of them seem to be hanging in there.  And after tonight, the weather looks good for a ways on out!  By next Tuesday nighttime temps are supposed to be up in the forties and we should be well on our way into our delayed-but-inevitable spring.  And I'll be putting more crops in the ground (outside even!) - lettuce and potatoes - once this chilly night releases its grip on us.  Not just we  humans, but those chickens, are getting anxious to get out in the sun again.

Dave