Not sure where the past five weeks have gone! The flock has grown exponentially and they’re fully “feathered out.”

Icarus still tries to fly the coop (so to speak) nearly every time we take the lid off. She’s got that devious look about her and is one of the largest birds.

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After putting more brooding sticks in the tank, we perched the feeder across two of them, which became the instant place to hang out. These birds love to be as high as they can. If your arm happens to be that thing, they’ll jump on you.

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The Golden Sex Links have finally started looking more normal — they had been awful ragged looking for some time. 🙂

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Bossy (middle) is still the smallest of the bunch and much less pesky than she was before.

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The Silver-Laced Wyonettes are also escape artists, always flapping about.

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My sweet little Penguin has lost all her white, but she’s still got the round, full figure of a penguin… so the name stays.

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This weekend’s agenda: build a coop. Will post progress of that, too!