Food Growing...

Some news on my flock of future food..

Been a month I have them.

Red Jungle Fowl is growing, confirmed a pair.

This is Jibby, the male Red Jungle Fowl. Very greedy feller.

And this is just one of the remaining six Malay chicks I have.

Lost four, three due to disease and cold ( light bulb burnt middle of night and they caught flu), one due to accident ( poor thing was accidentally stepped on). They're growing.

Basically I feed them grains ( dried corns, mixture of rejected grains and rice...etc), sometimes some kitchen leftovers that mum think is okay to give it to them ( she used to take care of chickens during childhood), I suppose it is okay. Usually they're let out to to run and roam free in the garden, strange enough these chicks stay only on the grassy area, which makes cleaning very much easier for me. I believe they get some extra protein supply from the ground by digging for earthworms and caterpillar other than those tiny little ikan bilis ( kitchen leftovers). Good for them, I'm happy, 'cuz in another two month or so I'll get to harvest the remaining six chicks. As for the pair of Red Jungle Fowl, I do plan to keep 'em as pet.

Teh Pao is stil afraid of those tiny, fast moving chicks.

But they'll soon discover the horror that she eats chicken! XD