On Valentines Day - our sweet little chicks hatched and believe it or not my husband picked up the little box of chicks from the post office at about noon today!!
Here is the box they arrived in:
Don't worry - they are no longer in the box. Our cat just thought she needed to check it all out once I placed the box on the table to get a photo.
My husband took a little video of the babies once he got them. I was going to try to share it here with you but couldn't get it to work. Sorry. So you will have to make do with this photo of them in the box once they had gotten their water and their little butts checked. Then we got them out to their new home!
They arrived quicker than we expected. It seems like last time we got baby chicks it took 2 days to get them to us. So we were shocked this morning to see they are already in a town about 1 1/2 hours away. But it still took them several hours to make it to our post office. That gave us a bit of time to finish getting ready for them.
So we ordered 25 and usually they send an extra chick - just in case there are chicks lost en route. Well they did not have one varieties that we had ordered so they substituted another - cheaper chicken - barred rock in their place and then threw in several extra because the ones we had ordered that they did not have were more money$$$ anyway we think we ended up with 29 babies. And we have 5 adult chickens. We lost one last Friday night :(
Anyway - This will add quite a bit of work for a while - but they are so cute and it is rewarding so it is worth it. Just like gardening- lots of work but well worth the efforts put in!!
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