Small, medium and large (birds)

Six (small) baby chicks.

No names yet.  They all huddle in the corner of the box for both warmth and protection. 

They believe firmly in 'strength in numbers'. 

A close up view of some of the chicks. I should call the chick on the left "Cleopatra".  

I love natural black "eye liner". 

You can see all three breeds in this picture. 

Here are the "medium" size birds on the farm (the full grown hens). 

In this picture, you can see two "buffs" and "Baby Boots" (the boys favorite). 

Baby Boots or "Boots" got that name as she has foot feathers that look like 'boots'. 

This buff is trying to lay an egg but is missing some privacy.  Farmer J made lovely wooden nesting boxes for the hens but they prefer to lay their eggs in this cardboard box.  I guess they are 'no frill' gals.  The funniest part about hens is that if one hen is laying an egg in a nesting box, another hen will try and get in the SAME nesting box (despite the fact that there are 3-4 empty nesting boxes.)  

The hens love being out of their coop. They also love warming themselves by laying next to the house. They step all over each other to worm they way into the perfect spot. 

The boys like to look out of the window and see the hens frolicking below them.  

 And LARGE!  Here are some pictures of the turkeys that LOVE the farm.  Check out the blue turkey head.  Who knew?! 

Here is the Turkey (Papa) Tom in full feather action! 

Perfect harmony- medium and large birds together!  The small (baby chicks) are definitely NOT ready to mingle with the big boys (and girls) yet!