Oh, the cuteness! In a way, today’s “little joyful things” homemade video has been a long time coming…
We finally did it. After years of dreaming, planning, delaying, re-discussing… deciding. We FINALLY did it. We brought home our “girls.”
There were four “layers” breeds available to us, and we went with two: the Australorps and Barred Plymouth Rocks. My original plan was for Silver-Laced Wyandottes as well, but because there has been “a run on chicks” BECAUSE of perceived food shortages, the selection of breeds was smaller for us than I had hoped. (I do hope people realize what they are getting themselves into when they bring home chickens – this is a decision that took us a long time to make. It’s a big commitment.) Anyhow, female Wyandottes were not available. If I could, I’d buy more chicks in the next week if Wyandottes became available, but in NY, you have to buy a minimum of six chickens at a time. That would take us up to 14 and that’s more than we wanted to start with this year.
At the time of this video, they’ve only been in their new home for about 12 hours – the first night is done! (I woke up several times to make sure that heat lamp was still on… yeah, I know. I’ll need to not over-worry.)
Mr. Gordon and I are already enjoying being mother hens. So much to do. We’ve read so many books, talked to a lot of different chicken owners over the years, and are ready to put the book learnin’ into practice. Hands on experience will be the true teacher, I have no doubt. But, as the quote I shared at the beginning of the video said:
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. – Amelia Earhart
I have found that to be true. Repeatedly.
Your turn!
What Chicken Wisdom do you have to share?
Yay for chicks! I hope you both enjoy chicken keeping. It is always fun to see how their different personalities develop. And, really, once you have their outdoor housing set up, their care is not much more than what a cat would require. Well, that’s my opinion anyway 🙂 We love having our little flock in our backyard.
Looking forward to watching your fluffy girls grow up!
Hello, Bekah!
We are very excited about our girls. We have wanted to do this for… many, many years, but for various reasons, waited. We decided to forego planting our fruit trees this year – we ARE going to take another year and prepare the soil in a way we just learned about earlier this year. So, that allowed us to consider and decide on doing the chickens this year versus the next.
Their personalities are coming out here and there – a couple more than others. So far we have named four of them: Penelope, Maxine, Daisy (Head Masie), and Charlie. The rest will be named as they begin to reveal more of their “self-ness.” 🙂 Mr. Gordon said he’s only calling them “chicken.” We’ll see about that…
One thing that hasn’t become old for me – to Mr. Gordon’s (slight) annoyance – is asking: “Guess what? Chicken butt.” 😀
How many chickens do you have, Bekah? What breeds?
Happy Tueday!