They're here!!! New chicks! Blurry pics of fluffiness included :)

treslilbirds

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Hoping I don't sound like a mad woman who's running on 3 hours of sleep, (because who can sleep with chicks in the mail?!), but THEY'RE HERE THEY'RE HERE! :wee

All the way from Cackle in Missouri to Northern California in 3 days exactly, 16 healthy little fluffy butts! We ordered 15, 5 Barred Rocks and 10 Easter Eggers. They sent an extra EE. :love Got the call right at 7am this morning from the PO, "Your chicks are here!". We pulled around back of the post office and oh my gosh y'all. I could HEAR THEM peeping from INSIDE the building as soon as we got out of the car. :lau Our regular mailman was the one who actually handed them to me. He said, "I would've brought them to you, but you don't look like you could have waited", lol. Was it that obvious? :oops:

Got everyone home, gave all a dose of PND and into the brooder pool they went. Had 2 slow ones I was a little concerned about at first, but after a couple of doses of PND (miracle juice that stuff), and a few minutes warming up in the Mama cave, everyone was running around eating, drinking, and pooping. Had one little pasty butt I had to clean, it took a few minutes, but she has since recovered her dignity and is hopping all over the food trough pecking her siblings. I even have one little precocious stinker that's already learned to hop on top of Mama Cave and is eyeing the edge of the pool. Hmmmm...:rolleyes:

Everyone loves their food and is drinking their vitamin water like it's going out of style. I'm really proud of my Chicky Hoop Coop Mama Cave I made. I'll try to remember to post pics on the MHP Brooder thread when my brain recovers from the excitement of the day. :celebrate

But now for the REAL reason you're here reading this...blurry fluffy butt pics!

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I'm so in love...I thought my heart was going to explode when he handed me that box behind the post office. They're all I've been thinking about for the past 3 days. Just praying and fretting, please get my babies here safe. Well thank you Lord! :wee

Ok. DH says I have to walk away from the chicks and eat some food.
Seriously? Who can eat with 16 floof poofs in the house?! :barnie:lau
 
Very cute! What breeds? Reconsider your set-up; that pool will work for maybe three days, if that. I use a 100 gallon stock tank with a hardware cloth lid. You could use a large box, like washing machines or refrigerators come in, with the side cut out and a hardware cloth lid. Change it out ASAP! Mary
 
Very cute! What breeds? Reconsider your set-up; that pool will work for maybe three days, if that. I use a 100 gallon stock tank with a hardware cloth lid. You could use a large box, like washing machines or refrigerators come in, with the side cut out and a hardware cloth lid. Change it out ASAP! Mary

Plymouth Barred Rocks and Easter Eggers. And yes I know they'll outgrow this pool in no time. We actually have 2 more that we're going to expand them out into as they outgrow this one. We have plenty of extra pools, bins, feeders and heating pads to expand. As well as plenty of chicken wire for make shift pool fencing lol. Hubby's goal is to build me a real brooder box at some point, but bless his heart, he's got a million other things on his plate too. So I just get creative in the meantime. :D
 
Plymouth Barred Rocks and Easter Eggers. And yes I know they'll outgrow this pool in no time. We actually have 2 more that we're going to expand them out into as they outgrow this one. We have plenty of extra pools, bins, feeders and heating pads to expand. As well as plenty of chicken wire for make shift pool fencing lol. Hubby's goal is to build me a real brooder box at some point, but bless his heart, he's got a million other things on his plate too. So I just get creative in the meantime. :D
Congratulations on your cute little fluffy butts, I love the pics!
 

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