A walk outside

It's getting a little crowded in the brooder. I made some improvements to help a bit. I switched to a hanging waterer. It was time to raise the feeder up, so I put it on a stack of bricks. We had some spare lumber laying around so I hacked together a roosting bar.

 
It's been a cold March so far. We even had our first snow day last week. Too cold for our partially-feathered gals to move outside. However, on Saturday we had some nice Pacific Northwest sun breaks. 

Zoe and Kaylee are nearly 6 weeks old. We figured that it is time they got to scratch outside on the lawn. We gave them an hour to peck around. They seemed to enjoy it. Both pullets got quite puffed up in the 45 °F weather. After the initial feather fluffing, they relaxed enough to sample the grass and dandelion leaves.

River and Inara stayed inside. They probably also enjoyed the time to stretch out.

After Kaylee and Zoe returned to the brooder, they spent some quality time under the heat lamp.

Anyway, I think they had fun.