[buckfever]

Its that time of year for all our kids in 4-H to get their birds. We just picked up ours today from our local Franklin County UT office. I went with Rhode Island Reds this time. Had the buff orpingtons and black astralorps. (however you spell those) Needed to try something new. If my dogs mess with these than I will be giving away some dogs here soon.

I wonder how long my 9 year old will feed and take care of em.

 

[buckfever]

Eh. Just went to check on chicks and found the first fatality.

I dont know what happened. Somehow the little bird was under the water bottle smashed to death. At this death rate I will be out of chickens in 26 days. I hope I can improve that number a wee bit.

Dont think my kids were messing with it cause we just cleaned out the box, added water and food a bit ago. Unless my wife was clumsy enough to lay the water bottle on a chick its a mystery to me.

One less mouth to feed though.

 

[Fairfarmhand]

We will be getting our chicks in soon hopefully. We've ordered some Dominques, Orpington Roosters and Rhodies too. No chick chain for my kids, even though we are big into 4-H. The smell of 25 chicks in the garage is more than I can handle.