Day 20

We've been shooting these three chicks for twenty days now . . .



Noodle Soup, totally out of focus, but looking rad in a new lighting scheme!



Salad Sandwich in full flight.




Pot Pie still won't fly for the camera, but here's some wingage. (and poopage.)



And here's a photo of viewer Rob K.'s three chicks, which happen to be the same breeds as my girls.
They've come a long way in twenty days!



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Day 19

Lazy Sunday . . . unless you're a three week old chick. The first day we got 'em they couldn't stay awake for me than 20 minutes at a time--I came home last night around 2am and they were all awake, runnin' around doing their normal business. I did catch them taking a little nap in the sun this morning.



Noodle Soup is our most graceful flyer.



Salad Sandwich going into warrior one.


Oh Pot Pie, why won't you fly for the camera . . . actually, have I seen you fly . . . I think so . . .
wait, what are you doing? I'd been thinking it was just a little chick indigestion from scarfing down all that food, but that looks a little cock-a-doodle-doo-ish. You'd better not be a rooster.


Narcoleptic, perhaps.



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Day 18

Our first batch of eggs!
No, not really. Our neighbors across the street brought over an egg from each of their four chickens. They have two Rhode Island Reds and two Leghorns. I had thought Leghorns were unfriendly factory chickens, but apparently that's not the case--theirs are friendlier than their RIRs. What productive little layers . . . man, Pot Pie better step up . . .




Noodie



Sallie




Pottie



Today was habitat cleaning day, so now the girls are back in a clean enclosure . . . except they've probably pooped it up by now.



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Day 17

Noodle Soup can now take off from the middle of the studio (not the edge), make it over to the habitat bench, walk over and get back in the door of the enclosure. At this point it's kinda hard not to take a picture of here fleeing the studio.



Salad Sandwich has similiar flight/jump skills--here you can see her taking off from some solid white center-studio floor, none of that edge stuff.



"oh, Pot Pie, I'm a little concerned about your joie de vivre"
I missed capturing her one jump out of the studio, then she pooped three times, and settled in for studio confinement.



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Day 16

Whoo! Busy day, here's the pictures . . .


Noodle Soup




Salad Sandwich


Pot Pie

They're becoming real birds . . .



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Day 15

Welcome to the third week with the chicks.
So yeah they're starting to fly.
I'm changing the lighting setup a bit, due to non chick factors, so things look a little different.



Noodle Soup



Salad Sandwich



Sallie in flight, out of the studio.



Pot Pie



This is as close to flight shot of her as I got.




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Day 14

Well they may be losing their 'cute' but they're making up for it with the interestingness of (attempted) flight.



Here we have Noodle Soup getting ready to take off a couple times, but getting shut down by my awesome defense!





These two shots are in direct sequence--poop, walk away, take off!
Salad Sandwich almost made it across the two foot gap between the 'studio' bench and 'habitat' bench. I managed to get my hand under her feet, so she took one step from my hand to the bench. She's definitely getting her wings clipped when they move outdoors.



Pot Pie just managed to poop twice during her shoot, no wingage. My roommate suggested we fulfill her named destiny and get a new chick--one that's as nice as Sallie and Noodie.
She'd better make a lot of tasty eggs . . .




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