If you have at all checked the blog lately you will have noticed a few additions to the pictures as of late. At the end of April we began our little farm project here with Gia. We picked up seven chicks and four ducklings to begin to call our own.
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| At the Hatchery awwing at the the adorable goslings. |
Now the children set up one very important rule in the whole process, if we name any of them, then we can't eat them. No name = food, name = farm pet. So very quickly they are were named.
We loaded up the car and made the two hour trip to the hatchery to pick out our new friends. Here is bin full of two day old chicks...Paul Thomas picking out his Rhode Island Red, Ginger.
A quick picture with our flock. And then back into the car for two more hours.
Everyone wanted to be in charge of the cargo. A bit of a learning curve with these little ones.
Finally back at our coop and getting everyone settled in. Avery with his two, "Little Red and Little Fluff. Those are their names till I can really get to know them and they get a little bit bigger."
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| Annie checking out Dottie the Duck. |
Annie is in total love with all the animals until they move, then it's all over.
Mary Colette with Little Princess, which quickly proved to be the biggest and most dominate chick, fitting. She too said this was just the started name, lest we end up with one chicken nugget.
Gia with the beginning of her new flock.
More to come and by more, I mean pictures, because let's face it cute kids with baby animals means picture gluttony.
I must also thank my dear husband and father for making the new coop and allowing us to gush over the new flock and for generally allowing this new hobby.
