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Check out these hot chicks!
May. 28th, 2011 03:47 pm... sorry, couldn't help myself.
This spring I ordered chicks through the feed store and I got a call yesterday that my chicks were in! They're Ameracaunas, the chickens that lay "colored" eggs (blue and green) -- well, not really purebred, more like mutt chickens with the colored egg trait. Chicks are hatched at nurseries and then shipped to their final destinations, since day-old chicks can go for a day or so without food or water. I wasn't sure if it would just be my 10 chicks in a box, but the feed store had a whole bin of them (they said they'd just gotten six dozen Ameracaunas in) and so they picked out 10 active, healthy chicks in various colors for me.
I grew up on a farm, but our little backyard flock always brooded their own chicks, so I've never raised chicks before, and I think I was half-afraid that they'd all drop dead immediately. But it's been 24 hours since I brought them home and they seem to like their new digs, so ... ( PEEPS! )
This spring I ordered chicks through the feed store and I got a call yesterday that my chicks were in! They're Ameracaunas, the chickens that lay "colored" eggs (blue and green) -- well, not really purebred, more like mutt chickens with the colored egg trait. Chicks are hatched at nurseries and then shipped to their final destinations, since day-old chicks can go for a day or so without food or water. I wasn't sure if it would just be my 10 chicks in a box, but the feed store had a whole bin of them (they said they'd just gotten six dozen Ameracaunas in) and so they picked out 10 active, healthy chicks in various colors for me.
I grew up on a farm, but our little backyard flock always brooded their own chicks, so I've never raised chicks before, and I think I was half-afraid that they'd all drop dead immediately. But it's been 24 hours since I brought them home and they seem to like their new digs, so ... ( PEEPS! )