Hand over the chicks

     I haven't updated the blog about the chicks for a long time, and I'm so sure that everyone wants to see pictures of small chickens and children, so here goes. When the chicks were a little over a week old we took them to their permanent home, the fish house at the In-law's.

 We loaded them up in a storage tote and hit the road.  It doesn't really look like 30 chickens.

                                                                        June 12th

     We put down wood shavings for bedding and brought their little heat lamp.

    It took no time at all for them to settle in and start pecking at every tiny piece of exposed insulation we hadn't managed to cover. 

                                                                                     Just out of arms reach

     The kids were sad not to have them in the basement any more, but they were already big enough that they could jump out of the kiddie pool and free range.

                                                                  Sad to say goodbye 

     When we got back from Wisconsin we went over to visit. These pictures were taken 8 days later. They grow so fast!

                                              June 20th

    We put them in the tote to carry them out to an enclosed area of the yard so they could eat mosquitoes and grass. 

                                                                                     One of the Turkens

     It was a nice visitation.