The Babies Are Here, The Babies Are Here!

     More babies arrived on the farm today. Yea! I received a call at 6:40 that they had arrived and to please come to the Woodward post office because they are loud. I was prepared for this on Monday morning. I got up early got dressed and was carrying around my phones but like every other delivery you can not count on it exactly. So I hurried out of bed threw on clothes grabbed my camera and some warm water. I stopped down at the barn and turn the heat lamps on and went to Woodward. I didn't drive fast what was the point they are here.

     I had to go to the back door of the post office and ring the bell they let me in and you hear the chirping. Oh yea more farm noise! I asked if the noise was driving them nuts, one man who was sorting mail grabbed the table and started shaking it yelling "yes, get them out of here". He had a smile on his face so I think he was kidding. But if you did have to listen to it for a while it would be annoying.

     I was picking up my 30 new baby chicks. 

Aren't they cute little fuzz balls?

     I got them to their new home in the barn. Dunked their heads in water then guided them to the feed and off they go. I did this 27 times. Welp's shorted us 3 chickens. They will hear about that but for now I just wanted to make sure they are safe, warm and that they get their bellies full. Hopefully we can keep the cats from getting them. We have a cage that Tim built that is on legs, I have to stand on a chair to reach inside plus we have ply wood on on side as a lid and chicken wire on the other side. It should do the trick. We love our barn cats but if they eat our chickens there is no love! We do not even eat our chickens.

     So in about 20 -25 weeks we should have more eggs than we know what to do with. Good thing we constantly have people wanting to buy eggs, now we might be able to keep up with demand. The problem is going to be what are we going to do with them when they get bigger? We already have about 28 chickens roaming around...