Time Flies

Emmy catches the small brown chick all the time, its "my friend". She's had Abby holding it by herself a time or two. There's nothing like a baby scampering in chick poop and touching all things chick poop. Where is her mother?

Reed and Ruby. Notice Ruby is on a chain, she still can't leave the chicks alone. They run so then she runs. Now we keep the chicks in their pen until 11am or so and let Ruby loose. Then chain Ruby and let the chicks loose, unless we're right there with Ruby on a leash. One of these days the chicks will be big and give her a big peck, then everyone will settle down.

I can't believe its been a week since I posted. The chicks are growing and doing great. There was a close call today with one. Steve had put an old 4' X 8' piece of chip board over the top of the fencing to create shade, and it was looking like it was going to break in two and kill some chicks if they were in the pen. So, I bought a tarp and we went to take down the dubious wood and put up the tarp. While taking the wood down Steve lost his grip and it fell almost taking out a chick, in fact I think it grazed its wing. But the chick ran off squaking so all is well. We did get the tarp up and secured. I found lilac (a Little Kim) and blueberry bushes today so I can plant my west garden now. I already had my butterfly bushes and various bulbs. Hopefully these will shade the west side of the house and cut down on airconditioning cost. I still haven't got my rainbarrels up and running, Michael (a nephew) is supposedly working on them...hint, hint, Michael.