Chicks Gone Wild!

Thursday, February 11,2010:

Good news everyone! Our first meat chicks arrived today! As we speak, they are healthy and peeping away in their brooder. We order our chicks directly from a hatchery in Fresno. They are shipped out immediately after hatching and arrive at our local post office the next day. We got a call first thing this morning from the post office and went to pick them up, which is always fun because people give us some interesting looks when we announce that we're there to pick up our chicks and the postal service worker goes to the back and returns with a vigorously peeping box. The baby chicks, or Little Peepers as I like to call them, will hang out in a nice, warm brooder for the next few weeks until they're big enough to go out in their movable pen. Don't worry, they always eat 100% organic/non-GMO food and we're giving them bits of grass, scraps, and bugs as soon as they're old enough. These chicks will live quite a ritzy chicken life while they become delicious chicken dinners over the next 8 weeks.

We ordered these chicks earlier in the year than we have in the past, so we will doubtlessly have to take extra measures to keep them warm, dry, and healthy. I think we're going to do just fine though. Jeff is a wonderful caretaker and spends a lot of time checking on them. He's probably already figured out who's who and named half of them. You've gotta love that guy...I know I do.