See How They Grow

 My broiler chicks are nearly a month old.  Today, they moved out of the brooder and into the grow-out pen.  Ideally the weather could be a little warmer, but they really needed to get outside where they have more space and more ventilation. All those hot little bodies in the brooder was really making it unbearably warm and stuffy even with the heat lamp off for the last five days or so.

They have gone from these cute tiny fluff balls the day they arrived. . . 

To these gangly larger birdies growing more feathers their second week. . .

To round birdies in a huge growth spurt and entering what I refer to as the 'naked stage' where their bodies grow faster than their feathers for a week or two. . .

To four weeks old (and now in the poop machine phase), moving outdoors to the great expanse of the grow-out pen, where they will eat both grower ration and whatever greenery grows in each spot that their pen will be moved to daily for the rest of their short lives (approximately another month).