Chicks!

It is about noon. We are anxiously awaiting a call from Farm-n- Fleet telling us our baby chicks are ready.  Hopefully I will be able to be here when they come, but I’ll have to leave to go work in the city by 2:00.  Once we bring them home, we have to dip their little baby beaks in a nutritional gel, their first meal since the yolk sac.  Then we place them in their brooder box where the temperature is monitored to remain at 85 – 95 degrees.  We will have 5 buff orpingtons, 5 barred rock, 5 rhode island reds and 5 polish hens.  The polish chickens are not necessarily good layers, but they make up for it by having a funny-looking mohawk hairdo.  For the first couple of weeks they will be yellow puffballs with big feet.  Then, the ugly duckling phase. Then, after 5 months, they are laying eggs.  Photos will follow shortly!