Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Cuteness alert!
Check out this neat site! It's a 4-H webpage with a camera set to watch eggs in an incubator. As I post this there are 3 eggs and one damp chick to be seen!
Click for chicks!
It's been a long time since we had any chicks or chickens around the place. (And I was glad of that when we were having the blizzards!) But seeing the baby chicks reminded me of when the big kids were in 4-H.
Sterling chose chickens for his project, and we picked some interesting breeds from a catalog. There was one kind where the adults would be solid black, a nice big bird good for both meat and eggs. The chicks turned out to be a black and yellow pattern. The day they came, I pulled a good joke on Damaris. When she got home from school I acted irritated and and complained that the company had made a mistake and sent me baby penguins. I said I'd had to take the heatlamp out and fill the pen with ice cubes instead.
Damaris just stared at me, then asked, "Won't the hatchery take them back?"
Click for chicks!
It's been a long time since we had any chicks or chickens around the place. (And I was glad of that when we were having the blizzards!) But seeing the baby chicks reminded me of when the big kids were in 4-H.
Sterling chose chickens for his project, and we picked some interesting breeds from a catalog. There was one kind where the adults would be solid black, a nice big bird good for both meat and eggs. The chicks turned out to be a black and yellow pattern. The day they came, I pulled a good joke on Damaris. When she got home from school I acted irritated and and complained that the company had made a mistake and sent me baby penguins. I said I'd had to take the heatlamp out and fill the pen with ice cubes instead.
Damaris just stared at me, then asked, "Won't the hatchery take them back?"
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