Yesterday morning Tay and I went to town to pick up our 25 little Red Sussex chicks. It was a really wet and windy morning and the poor little things were is a cardboard box with a few holes in it. They talked all the way home in the car - peeping our ears off. When we arrived home we set them in their new home (a drawer from the dump) with a heat lamp and food and water, they ran around like crazy for a few minutes then calmed down and drank, ate and stretched their little legs.
So far so good, we wtill have all of them, I wasn't sure how they would do over night, but they all pulled through and were peeping and running around this morning. The kids are so excited, they check on them before and after school and before they go to bed. The dog is not sure what to think and the cat sees dinner, but nw they are in a locked room so she can't get at them - thank goodness.
They are so cute right now but as Ed says they will get ugly fast when they molt and start growing up. They are peeping away enjoying the feed and water and the ability to walk around and not being cooped up in a little shipping box.
1 comment:
Oh boy, that's a lot of chickens! Love how Tay is gazing down at them lovingly... Too cute!
PS: Got a lovely parcel in the mail today! Thank you! What a great surprise. I'm going to brew myself a pot of tea right now.
Love you!
xo
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