Thursday morning at 7:30am , we got a call from the Post Office saying our baby chicks were in. We ordered 75 chickens from a local hatchery and they were born on Wednesday, so we got them when they were 1 day old. The boys stayed home from summer school and helped me get them all set up in our brooder (recycled stock tank). They had so much fun playing with the chicks all day. They started naming some of them (although I'm not sure how they tell them apart) and I warned them that naming animals we will later eat is not the best idea. So, they have pretty much limited themselves to naming only the red chicks which will grow up to be laying hens. The yellow chicks will grow up to be broilers and thus shall remain nameless.
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Hey Ginger!
The baby chicks post reminded me of a book I read over the holidays: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. It's part memoir, part journalistic rant about the food industry, agriculture, gardening, etc. Here's the web site: http://www.animalvegetablemiracle.com/
In the book, her 6-year-old daughter orders baby chicks which come to their local post office. She creates her own lucrative egg business from the chickens!
Reading the blog has been so entertaining. It's wonderful to catch up with all of you so easily. Can't wait to read the next one!
Love-Samhita
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