First Look! (at the new chicks)

Here are our chicks!  We picked them up last night.  There are 10 chicks, 8 of which we will keep and 2 go to relatives.  They are all doing great except for one, Little Peeper, the first chick that Isabel named...Little Peeper is spending the day in the intensive care unit of our bathroom hospital. 

 

Can you tell she's excited?  She was apparently shuddering with excitement when they picked the chicks up!

 

Holding a Rhode Island Red.

Brooder set up.  Right now there are pine shavings underneath the paper towels.  We will remove the paper towels once they figure out that food is food and pine shavings are not.  You can see the water feeder and the food trough, and of course the heat lamp.  The cardboard is to block any drafts that might make it too cold for them.  

 

Chicks in the feeder....pretty soon we will put a little cover over it so they can't do this ;)

The little black and white one up front is a Barred Rock.

 



Peeking into the brooder.

 



Isabel holding Little Peeper.

Ian's first look inside the brooder at the chicks the next morning.

 

His view of a chick that fell asleep standing up, beak down!

 

He wanted to hold a chick right away!

 

 

Little Peeper's bathroom brooder.

 



 

Snow, at the new house!

We've been in the new house for over a month now and it has snowed twice!  We are enjoying the space and our cozy wood burning fireplace :)  Isabel is 2 months shy of 7 and Ian is 22 months in these photos.  By the time we actually made it outside, the snow had already begun to melt :(