Pictures of Baby Chicks

I thought I would update you on the baby chicks we brought home 2 weeks ago and give you some insight to their evolving personalities.

Big Martha {Barred Plymouth Rock} is amazingly calm.  Nothing seems to bother Big Martha.  I think she might be the highest in the pecking order of this bunch.  I love her, she’s so friendly and sweet.

Buffy {Buff Orpington} is a total fruitcake.  This one is going to be trouble.

Squeakers {Sex-Link} wants to be held.  Until you hold her.  Then she wants to be put down.  But as soon as you put her down she comes up to your hand and wants to be picked up.  Another fruitcake.

Peanut {Easter Egger} is a fun bird.  Very curious, likes to be held and friendly.

Guess what?  We bought more chickens!!!

I’d like to introduce

Brown Fatty {Partridge Cochin}

White Fatty  {Cochin}

Baby Fat {Australorp}

So far all 3 of these babies are wonderful. No complaints.  They are all just tiny puff balls of love.

Since we brought home so many baby chicks from the Feed Store I had to cancel my order with mypetchicken.  The Girl Who Thinks She’s A Bird was a little disappointed she won’t be receiving her Silver Sebright Bantam, but  I told her we could order one next year and she seemed fine with it.

And… Get this… My neighbor Girly Girl is getting chickens too.  Apparently they are all the rage and she wants 4 of them.  She does not want baby chicks though. She is afraid her cat will eat them so she has decided to get pullets instead.

Upon hearing this I quickly offered her 2 of our birds.  Buff the Wayward Chicken and Peter the escape artist.  Because I am totally brilliant {and because she does not read this blog} I left out the adjectives when describing my offer of free birds to her.  I was rather smart and pointed out Buff laid brown eggs and Peter laid gorgeous pale green ones as she does not want any birds which lay white eggs.

Hot diggety… I get to unload some unruly chickens as soon as her husband builds a coop!

Life is good.

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