Ready for rehoming -- are you ready?

These are the 3 week old chicks.

This is how they start their day. Not quite tall enough for the Dine-A-Chook feeder just yet...

Most of the bigger chicks head straight towards it in the morning when they are let out from their fox-proof henhouse.

Today they spent most of the day pecking at watermelon to stay cool.



 So with Green Magazine now on the shelves in newsagents and available to subscribers on-line there has been a burst of interest in who is available for rehoming right now.

To make things fair for you and easy me, below are some photos.

To have them at your place you must commit to the following:

• The chooks will be provided with a suitable area where scratching and digging is allowed and encouraged.
• They will have permanent access to areas of dappled light and deep shade.
• Fresh tansy, lavender, comfrey and wormwood will be grown and made available for the chooks to eat.

Regulars to this blog may recognise her... yes, it's the adorable NQR.

Very few of our "not staying" chicks get names but she is especially special -- possibly the most special chick we've ever had, and certainly the most asked after by readers!

There are two groups of sisters available for rehoming right now.

I don't break up sisters who were hatched and raised together. This is how their family structure would operate in the wild, think how lion prides work and it's pretty much the same deal with chickens -- girls stay together and all the boys other than the alpha male move on once they near maturity.

One group hatched on Christmas Day

The other group is 2 weeks younger.

1 group is 3 sisters, 1 group is 4 sisters.

OK it was 38 degrees today and both the chicks and I weren't really managing the photos very well so I've cheated and given you this group shot!  This will give you an idea of what your flock will look like!  Pretty huh?

And then just to confuse everyone here is one of Miss Lilly's lovely chicks.

She is turning out to be stunning and has a sister who is identical.

There are only 2 girls in that hatch so they will probably stay here with their mother and aunties... or sometimes groups of 2 go to very small gardens (but it's not ideal as they can become anxious when there's only a pair of them).

The alternative is that Salt and Pepper also only has 2 girls in her hatch so perhaps we'll team the cousins up into a gorgeous group of 4.