~ Retired and Starting My Future In The Foothills ~

[theoldchick]

Nothing says "Spring" more than fuzzy little chicks!

 

[bluesub]

Nice Stink-eye in that last chick pic...

 

[maclady]

Love your new fluffy chicks. I really like what you did inside the coop with the Chickergarten also. Hope you feel better soon!

 

[OvertheHenHouse]

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X2 - exactly what I thought when I saw it

Is that the 'roo' that's already in charge? Sure looks it.
Adorable chicks - love love love BOs - congratulations!

 

[gryeyes]

Well, folks, the chicks are still hatching! I'm pretty sure I have at least 25 of 'em now... just pulled a couple more out of an incubator to join the others. There are still eggs hatching AND hatchlings in each of the three incubators.

I'm really pleased at least one of the BR marked eggs hatched, as there weren't very many of them and I just love BRs. I miss my Betsy.

John came by to measure the roof of the house and give me a rough estimate of the cost to replace it later this year. Because he was here, I asked him to handle a few little things that needed to be done. First, he had to mess with the auto-waterer fountain in the coop, which he's tinkered with 3 times and it was leaking again. He determined it was actually broken and un-fixable. So we came up with a way to solve another watering problem, cannibalizing parts from here and there, moving water faucets in the coop, clearing foreign objects from one hose and adjusting a valve to the "always filled" waterer I'd been using with a five gallon bucket on the other side of the coop. Now, crud won't get into that hose because it's attached directly to a faucet.

Then he placed the four security cameras and tacked down the power cords to them. They're not hooked up yet, but they're where I wanted them and ready for me to get the system set up inside the house to operate them.

Plus I had to show him the newly hatched chicks.

Got a phone estimate for the replacement and installation of a new propane cast iron stove; the store manager will e-mail copies of the "basic" one and one with the model of stove I really liked.

Also got a phone call from a guy asking about chicks for sale; he'd gotten my number from the gal at Bradshaw Feed (she knows it's okay to give my number out to persons she's already vetted as "reasonable" to refer to me). She'd told me he would be calling me, when I picked up chick starter and a bottle waterer last night on my way home from work.

Time to adore my chicks for a while.

 

[Happy Chooks]

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No kidding!

 

[HHandbasket]

Buzzyfutts!!!

 

[ChicknThief]

Chickies! *glomp!*

 

[Kansaseq]

I have chick envy, ESPECIALLY since you have your new chick kindergarten. No more dusty bathrooms!!!

 

[gryeyes]

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Well, they're not out there YET. I still have to set up the ginormous brooder with all the accoutrements for the babies. Right now they're in a wire cage with an EcoGlow20, a dish of chick starter and a water bottle attached to the side of the cage. I've got a towel over one half of the cage to make it more "cozy" for them. The cage is on a folding card table. When I open the small door to the cage to reach inside, Boss Chick comes right out and scampers around on the card table surface. I put it (bet he's a roo!) back about 3 times. Then another chick dashed out.

So I propped the large door open and set up a folded cardboard box barrier around the edge so several little chicks could go adventuring. (Boxes in which the chicks originally came packaged as eggs!)

I need a power strip for the coop outlet closest to the ginormous brooder; right now that outlet is occupied by the power cords for the coop auto-door and one of the two baby monitor cameras.