Tuesday, March 31, 2009

We Have Chicks!!!


Even the dog looks after the "babies".


Emily's homemade car won 2nd place for best design at AWANA last week.



Lily can't keep her hands off of them.















The kids have been wanting to have chicks ever since their Aunt Maddie got chicks last year. I wanted chickens as part of my effort to buy all of our food locally, and at home is as local as you can get. I like to know exactly what is in my food, and these days you can never be too careful about what you're feeding your family.





The kids love the chicks. They are getting bigger every day. They have to live in the house under a heat lamp for one month so the girls get to look after their "babies" all the time. After dinner all of the kids go out to the yard and hunt for bugs to feed to the chicks who then fight like crazy over it.





So, now we are a family of 2 parents, 5 kids, 1 dog, 1 fish and 8 chicks all living inside the house for now. Hopefully I'll be able to keep up with everyone and still maintain my household.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Cool DeeAnn! Where are you going to put them outside? Do you have a chicken coop? Curious because this is something I want to do but can't this year.

Christy Fritz said...

Congratulations!
they are so cute. :)
christy

Christy Fritz said...

oh, and congratulations to emily as well! :)

Tonya said...

you are so lucky! If I tried to have chickens, the neighborhood association would be knocking my door down. We are pushing it just having a garden this year, although I know other people who have gardens around here. I think it's "legal" as long as you can't see it from the road.

You'll love having fresh eggs. I hope we get to do that some day.

Congrats to Emily on her car!

Hope you guys are all well! I was happy to see an update:)

musicmommy3 said...

Yeah for chicks!! Way to go Emily!!