The Little Chickens Grow Up

Suddenly the little chickens are almost as big as the big chickens. It's time to call them pullets, the name for domestic hens under a year old. Here they are feasting on watermelon rind.



Some of the pullets have performed their rite of passage. This past week we began finding little brown eggs in the nests along with the big pale ones the old hens lay. These pullets are laying earlier than the old hens did. They are just a week shy of four months old.


Let's hear it for the little red hen!