So Long Bannie Chicks

These first few are some recent pictures of the chicks out in the backyard before we took them to their new home this past weekend....

Arkie was my chicken...She loved me the most (at least I think so)...If I sat down, she was the one who flew up on me and let me love and pet on her...

But then here would come Archie, the big boy....

But we said good-bye to the chicks on Sunday....Not good-bye for good, but just good-bye since they won't be living at our house anymore...They turned 8 weeks old last Friday and we knew it was time...They were getting so big and we knew that they would much rather enjoy running around at my dad's house with some other chickens anyways...We are sure gonna miss them...I've had to call a few times to check on them since Kerry makes me...He really, really misses them...I guess he would since he raised them and took care of them everyday...

So it was a little traumatizing for us initially...We got there and Chet, the dog, stays away from the chickens...He doesn't bother them...Just runs around and minds his own business...But dad's

chickens can't fly...He stuck in his head and was like "hey, whatcha got there"...No big deal, I wasn't worried...We open it up and ours immediately fly out...And I think the dog instinct took over and he went after poor Sharkie...If it wasn't for the four wheeler where she could fly under, we almost had us a dead chicken...How AWFUL would that had been!!!...Oh my goodness, my heart was racing...So Chet got in a little bit of trouble and left the chickens alone after that...

We get them out and put them inside the chicken coop to walk around in there....
Dad bought a bannie hen and a bannie rooster not too long ago...We were glad that there would be 2 other little ones with them since our chickens are tiny compared to these normal sized chickens...So here comes this little bannie hen...That's her to the right of our black rooster...She is like who do you think you are....Wanna fight?? So they did!!...OMG!!!...I'm freaking out a little bit...But I have to say our rooster kicked her little bootie...We had our own cock fight going on...So Archie, the rooster, thinks he's pretty cool now...He protected his 3 females and he's good to go....

Not so much...You see how small ours are compared to that big chicken...Well it wasn't this particular one...But another female comes up and I guess they just know he's the rooster...She went after our black one...They fight and he lost...He was terrified!...So everytime he saw her, he would start screaming and would come running towards Kerry to hide between his legs...We had to keep her away from ours for awhile and then I think she got over wanting to kill our chickens....

They kept flying up on their bin like "ok, we can go home now"...We stayed for about 1.5 hours, mainly just to make us feel better that A) the dog wasn't going to eat them or B) the other chicks weren't going to beat them all up....

Kohen didn't even really care...He was too worried about riding on the four-wheeler with Sallye...

I thought Kresee would want to ride with Kerrry, but nope...

Later she got on with Kohen and I and loved it...

But they are doing great...They, of course, stay together...They don't venture too far out of the chicken coop, but we will go and visit them this weekend...Sadly, I bet they really won't want us holding them or petting them anymore...They were too sweet and we loved the whole experience (minus the 2 chicks dying on us)...Kresee still says "Morning Chickens--Hello Chickens" everyday...I have to remind her that they aren't at our house anymore...We will for sure do it again...Sallye really wants some ducks out there...We might have to try some duck eggs and see if we can hatch some!