Homestead Haven Beginnings

We have our chickens!

We now have four chickens!  After reading the story "Henny Penny" my DD7 convinced the other children that these would be great chicken names.  So we now have our first hatchling, the only yellow one, is Goosey Loosey, then we have our three red ones: Turkey Lurkey, Ducky Lucky and Henny Penny.  They are so much fun to watch!  Did you know that chickens have personality too???  I didn't!  We have them under the light to keep them at 95 degrees and then each week we will lift the light so that the temp goes down 5 degrees at a time.  After about 6 weeks, they will be ready for the "Chicken Castle" which I have yet to post pictures...for sure I will post them in the next couple weeks!  Gabrielle has been journaling about them, and I am going to post one of her entries in a couple days, hopefully I will be able to scan and post the picture she has drawn to go with it!  DS5 loves his little chick, she has a problem where her poo is sticking to her bottom and so if we don't clean it off every couple days, my understanding is she could die.  He takes such good care at watching her little bottom and when I have to wash it, he makes sure the water is warm and gets nervous if she starts chirping too much.  DS3 just wants to pick his chick up by the neck to kiss it, what he doesn't understand is that his loving could be fatal...poor chick doesn't even have a chance!!!  Just kidding, I have everyone on watch to make sure he isn't getting to it.  The funny thing is that DS3's chicken has a black mohawk!!!!!!!!  If you haven't seen in my right hand column the picture of my son's mohawk!  So true that we start to look like our pets!  Well, as you can probably see, we are all very excited around here to have these girls, so hang with us as we will probably be talking a lot about them!

Blessings, Rossie

Love the names

{ 04:50, Monday, September 18, 2006 } { Posted by Darcy }

What a cute story. I can't wait to see the pictures.
Darcy

Go ahead

{ 06:26, Monday, September 18, 2006 } { Posted by Pattisea }

You talk about those chickens as mucha s you like; I know I sure enjoy it!

I can't wait to see some pictures.

Patti

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{ 07:38, Monday, September 18, 2006 } { Posted by lynjc }

Very exciting about the chicks! I am jealous! It sounds like fun!
I wanted to tell you to have fun at the MOPs convention!