Kickin' Chickens Out

We have kicked all the chicks outside now.  They were (mostly) feathered out and the basement was getting pretty stinky.  The eating chickens are amazingly different from the layers.  Here's a picture of our broilers.

Not completely feathered and still ugly.  And they are voracious eaters.  And here's a few of the layers.  Much cuter by chicken standards.

 That one with no feathers on it's neck is one of our Turkens.

The one with the funny hairdo is some special/exotic/fancy chicken breed that sports a strange arrangement of feathers on it's head and is still a good egg layer.  And darned if I can ever remember the name of the breed.  All of our chickens are separated.  The old ones have run of our land and every day is an Easter egg hunt.  Jeremy's building some nests out of the old horse hay feeder.  The broilers are in a new pen using the old goat house as a coop.  And the new layers are in the existing chicken coop and run.