Here a Chick, There a Chick

The chicks are here! The chicks are here! Our 25 little chicks arrived safe and sound from McMurray's hatchery and have taken up residence in the warm basement. We have ordered from McMurrays in the past and again were very pleased with our new little feathered critters. They arrived healthy and chipper (all except for the one poor little dead chick, but being they ship an extra with every batch we still got our 25 chicks). They were scheduled to arrive on Monday, February 7th, at our local post office, but on Saturday night around 11:00 p.m. an in-between post office called to say that they were there and we could come and pick them up or wait for them to be shipped off for Monday's arrival. Bright and early on Sunday morning I awoke from a dead sleep thinking about those little chicks being in that big cold post office storage room with no food or water, so at 6:30 a.m. I called the post office and somebody actually answered. I woke Cole up and we made the 40 mn trip to collect our little chicks. I ordered 20 Light Brahma hens, 2 Light Brahma roosters, and 3 Black Silkie chicks for Cole the Chicken Man. It is so fun to see them everytime I go down to fire up the woodstove and to hear their little peepings from down below. Only 5 months to go until we are in the egg business again.