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WEEK 3
Transformers
By the third week your birds are truly starting to resemble chickens instead of chicks.
Their wings, capes, and crowns of their heads have grown actual feathers, and every-
where else new feathers are either burgeoning or they're already coated in a slick new
do. Sigh and smile; your girls' baby days are behind them.
You may also start to discover that some of the flock may be future poultry Olympians.
With most of their wing feathers now installed, your bolder charges may take flight
within their brooder or launch themselves from the tops of founts and feeders out of the
safety of the nest. I usually remedy this with a fitted wire screen over the top of the box.
Combs and wattles begin to develop
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