BABY CHICKENS!
Hooray! Our baby chicks arrived yesterday! These will be our new batch of layers. They are a variety of Plymouth Rock chickens called Barred Rocks. When they grow up, they will be that beautiful black and white striped colour. But for now, they are the cute little fuzzy chirping bundles of black and yellow joy.
Arrival:
New home:
Prepare for cuteness!
These chicks arrived from Ohio 3 days old. Yes, they come via Postal mail. And if you happened to wonder why the waterer is holding a yellow liquid, it's a special electrolyte solution for the babies. Basically, Pedialyte or Gatorade for chicks. They also have a special diet for the next several months until they mature. I'm not really sure when they will stop needing the heat lamp, but they definitely need it now.
My boyfriends parents ordered 50 chicks, but we only took these 8 as that is all that our coop will contain as adults. All in all, that's a lot of eggs!
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