Two Hot Chicks

The two little chicks are doing really well, and the hen has turned out to be a great mother.  They are still in the wire dog crate on the back lawn, and I move it once or twice a day so they are on fresh clean grass.  This morning I let them out when I moved it to try and get some decent pictures, but it was pretty hard. You can see that already their bodies are longer and they have little feathers on their wings.

The hen is offering them something to eat, it is probably part of an unripe cherry off the tree overhead.

See how she finds things for the chicks to eat and offers it to them.  After this I managed to herd them back into the crate without much trouble. 

This afternoon Dad came for a visit, but by the time I got the camera, he had had enough.

And then it was time for a little sunbathing.