I'm a mommy! [pic of course]

[AccountingDrone]

I'm a mommy! My batch of 25 mixed rare/unusual chicks just arrived! Squee!

My poor cat is baffled at the strange sounds coming from the box

[Nurian]

Hehe, they're cute!

[AccountingDrone]

and loud ... 25 going peep peep peep ... loud little buggers =)

[Aethian]

*grins* I love when people get chicks through the mail. We usually have to put them in the bosses office with the lights off to let them sleep and use to not hear the cheep cheep cheep but they are cute.

[RetailWorkhorse]

Daw~.

*Pats chickie*

FUZZY!

*Pats chickie*

SQUEEEE~!

*Pats Chickie*

[shankyknitter]

chickies! *pets the chickies*

So cute and fluffy!

[ShadedWings]

eep eeep eeepeepepepeepepeeepeeepeep.. I can imagine!

That (annoyingly, I bet it's stuck in your head now!) said, ... SQUEEEE!!! <3

[Aut]

Awwww for cute! Congrats!

[Magpie]

Mmmmmm... yummmy.....



What? I eat an insane amount of eggs.

[Exaspera]

Awwww! What little cuties! What do you plan to do with them?

[AccountingDrone]

We raise chickens for eggs and meat, and the fun of watching them. They actually do make fun pets if they are handled frequently enough to get accustomed to humans. Actually, we also have roman and emden geese, and an indian runner duck that seems to think it is a goose. It is sort of like having a bunch of kindergardeners in feathers around here.

We are also getting 30 purple guinea fowls in a few weeks - just enough time to move the chickens out of the acute brooding phase to where they don't need quite as much attention.

Since we expanded the number of chooks, we are building a new chicken house for them in a different part of the field, with a larger yard. Right now I am trying to figure out where the roll or poultry netting went to last fall

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Now that's precious as can be. *drooling and resisting urge to reach through the Internet to take a couple of the chicks*

I'm not sure how my cats would react to having something like that around the house, but they do sound like a lot of fun.

[Squeaksmyalias]

*sniffle* I miss my Bob, I had one in high school a friend gave me and another friend to raise. Bob was a hen...but she was AWESOME. For a hen who spent a lot of time indoors the fox that kept picking off the other chickens she moved in with never got her, she died at because of old age.

Bob even made it into our high school's year book! I'm so proud.

*Gently huggles the wittle chicks*

[lordlundar]

and loud ... 25 going peep peep peep ... loud little buggers =)

This just reminded me of the episode of Dirty Jobs with the chicken catchers in Florida. A baby chick gave away his position by not shutting it's trap.

[AccountingDrone]

chickens do make fun pets - we took one of my chooks to the local school for a kindergarden teacher to use for show and tell... in a leftover bird cage =) one of the kids who had a keet asked if we kept her in the house like that =)

I had a teacher ask if we could give them some eggs to hatch so the kids could raise it as a class pet ... and I had to gently explain that the white hall cross that we had eggs for at the time would get to be about 9 pounds in 3 months ... they got a hamster. If I had quail, it would have been great but chickens get too large too fast to really work out. Maybe one of the tiny bantam types, I had a full grown bantam hen a few years ago that was the size of a rock cornish game hen [it was an old english bantam, dainty little thing named Houdini for her ability to escape the coop at will. I think she would teleport through the walls and wire!]