I got my baby chicks in the mail today. They're incredibly cute, and they're already eating and drinking well. We have the heat lamp and all that stuff to keep them happy and healthy. The barred rocks are a nice black color, the araucanas are brown with interesting markings, and the rare breed (we don't know which yet) is a bright yellow.
And by the way, I'm talking about baby chickens.
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
Awww... fer CUUUUUTE!! Baby chicks are so fun. We really handled our first ones a lot. Our 5yo was about 2 then and I walked into the dining room (we had them set up on the table at first) to find her squeezing one, totally excited-like. I grabbed her and the chick limply fell to the bottom of the box. But, with a little "HEY!" in its ear and a thump on the rear, it came back from its near-death experience rather well.
BTW, arbi, how old are your kids? I bet they love them. (I will hug him and pet him and squeeze him and love him...)
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Life is tough but it's tougher if you're stupid. -John Wayne
So, do you know where you'll chop their little headdies off, so they can run around spurtin' blood everywhere without making a big mess somewhere you don't want it?
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And I'd discuss the holy books with the learned men, seven hours every day. That would be the sweetest thing of all.
My boys love visting the baby chicks at Grandma's farm. Heck, they even loved helping to muck out the barn.
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"The promptings of the Holy Ghost will always be sufficient for our needs if we keep to the covenant path. Our path is uphill most days, but the help we receive for the climb is literally divine." --Elaine S. Dalton
These are day old chicks (or were when we received them). Just before hatching, a chick absorbs the yolk in the egg, thereby allowing it to stay alive without eating for a while after birth. When they get to the post office, they call you and you go pick them up. They don't deliver chicks to your door.
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
The cats love to sit on top of the perforated lid where the chicks are and watch them.
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
"The promptings of the Holy Ghost will always be sufficient for our needs if we keep to the covenant path. Our path is uphill most days, but the help we receive for the climb is literally divine." --Elaine S. Dalton
BTW, my kids are 2 and 12. They do love them. The 2 year old wants to love them to death.
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
