We have chicks!!! Twelve. And more "cooking". Our new dear friends delivered us twelve 3-week old chicks on Friday and set up our chicken house with a heat lamp and cedar shavings. The chicken house he had delivered here a few weeks ago! God is Good. We have been so blessed! And he will have about 15 more hatching for us in a few days! We have Americanas, Rhode Island Reds, and others. Our friends said we have some chicks that will eventually lay blue and green eggs! The chicks are quite a hit here on our newly forming homestead! Little Ricky didn't want to go to 4H this Saturday for shooting practice because he wanted to stay home with the chicks! He now spends a lot of his down time now in front of the chicken house watching "chickenvision" with McGillicuddy! And we caught Fred INSIDE the chicken house sitting in a chair, reading a book while watching the chicks! Whose kids are these? Who knew the chicks would be such a hit?! We are supposed to keep the chicks inside the chicken house for about a week so that they know that's their home then we can release them into the yard and they are supposed to go back in the chickenhouse on their own at night. This method is working out well because the dogs and the cats are able to sniff them and get "acquainted" with them prior to letting them free-range. We are trying to decide whether to "free-range" them or put up a "pen" for them to roam in. We are hearing different thoughts on that so we'll see. There is also different thoughts on whether to clip a wing so they can't fly away or not to clip a wing so they can fly into a tree for protection. We understand that once they have established this as their home they will return if they do fly away. We are learning and I'm sure we will learn as we go. That's the country life. Learn as you do. Just do.
Can't wait for the chicks to debut on the ol' blog. Maybe you can name them Marcia, Jan, Cindy, Greg, Peter and Bobby! :-)
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