These are the sounds filling our building.
At 6:00 this morning, we received a phone call from the Post Office. Our chicks had arrived! My dad went to pick them up and brought them home.
Earlier, my dad had built an 8 x 8 x 2 enclosure for the chicks. They have to have food, water, a lamp and a fan.
We also discovered that the bedding had to be covered for a few days or they will eat it and die! Imagine my mother's surprise when she saw all of her good bath towels and some pretty rooster hand towels in the enclosure. Can you say, chicken poop? Oh, what we do for the love of chicks!
The chicks will be kept in the enclosure for six weeks. During that time, we will work to make a wooden tool shed into a chicken coop with roosts and hen boxes for laying eggs. The chicks should be laying eggs by September! Wahoo! Keep watching as we chronicle the transformation of the tool shed to a chicken coop! Should be fun and exciting!
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