Growing on goodness

The young family are doing well and their varied diet is certainly filling their crops.

Salad trays are certainly a hit, with limited greenery in their pen, it offers a range of different dietary benefits. The soft baby leaves are both a perfect texture and height for our youngsters and eating a tray a day certainly seems to be helping with their development.

So too does corn on the cob, which are now over ripe of our consumption, but for the family they are perfect, full of natural sugars and high in many vitamins and minerals, the youngsters and Carpet gather round eagerly.

At 3 weeks old today the youngsters are developing both distinctive plumages, with heavily patterned wings and a dominant white strip down their tummies, together with distinctive characters. Gaining in confidence the sight of a salad tray is greeted with greatest excitement, the two more dominant chicks immediately gain best advantage from the top of the tray, two of the more reserved youngsters approach from the outside, whilst the quietest of the five, stays with Carpet for encouragement. 

Identifying these traits at this early stage, just serves to illustrate how privileged we are to watch and observe these youngsters grow and develop from day to day and we eagerly wait and see how they grow and establish their place alongside our other birds.