Thank you, I am so thrilled with the chicks!!! I tried to get a pic of Naruto and her chicks but she is still hiding them in the coop and takes them to the most inaccessible corners when I show up. This pic is the closest that the chicks have gotten to leaving the coop.... I’ve only now compared both, brooding in a separate pen vs brooding in the coop, and I really like the separate pen for broodies and mom, as the moms seem so much more relaxed. Here are two of 9 Balls chicks, 6 weeks old, looking in on Susan and her new chicks. Susan knows that they can’t get to her babies and was undisturbed. I thought that Naruto could handle the flock access since she is the flock’s alpha hen, but even so she is nervous. I’m afraid her chicks are going to see the world as a scary place...
Most of my mammals were my former research animals, and my cat was in a diabetes study but has been a diabetic in remission for 6 years! It’s a long time for a diabetic cat. I hope that we are able to find something treatable...
They're precious!
At the orientation yesterday, the professor forcefully told us and the kids that he despises their phones, so if he saw a phone anywhere, he would smash it with a hammer! Meanwhile, I was trying to squeeze my sick cat into a specialist’s appointment at our vet school. Ya know, avoiding the front desk (2 weeks for an appointment!) and calling in favors to get my cat seen sooner... So I had to keep ducking into empty hallways to return calls so my phone wasn’t made an example of! Other parents were doing the same - we are at least as bad as our kids! Lol.
