Well, after 5 days the chicks are doing pretty well over all. We had one casualty which we speculate was due to the heat, but the rest of them are growing incredibly fast and seem to be thriving. We fill up their food trough at least three times a day and sometimes more, and the same for their water. We are all totally amazed at how fast they are growing in such a short time. Less than a week ago, they were a tiny ball of fluff and 3 of them would fit in your hand. Now they are looking more like chickens and only one will fit in your hand at a time. Hard to believe in about 7 weeks, they'll be dinner !
I also put some pictures of our garden up here. Clay is displaying his pumpkin vine that he started from seed indoors back in early March. It has grown like crazy and he loves to go look at it.
It's hard to tell much about the garden from this picture, but it's doing pretty well. Actually, when compared to my previous 2 years of gardening it is the best garden ever. I have 5 tomato plants (4 of which were grown from seed indoors), 2 1/2 rows of green beans, 3 1/2 rows of okra, 6 rows of corn, 9 zuchinni plants, 9 cantaloupe plants, 9 watermelon plants and 1 pumpkin vine. The thing that makes this garden so much better than the last two is that you can see dirt between all the rows of plants instead of weeds. It's been more work, but I haven't cared since I feel so much better than I have in several years. David even put a fence around it for me to keep the deer, coons, possums and rabbits out. With any luck, we'll even have enough produce left over to can and eat throughout the year.
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