Fuzzy baby ...

Chicks!

In other urban farming news we got baby chicks! Last week we went out to Concord Feed and picked up 5 (!) fuzzy baby chickies. The are ridiculously adorable. There's one "Americauna" (AKA "Easter Egger"), one Rhode Island Red, and 3 Polish (one black/white & two buff). This year's chick purchases were focused on getting friendly, fun chickens, which is how we ended up with the Polish. And we got three of those because they come "un-sexed", meaning they could grow up to be hens or roosters. So far, we're all in agreement that any that grow up to be roosters will become dinner for us. So far.

We also had a little scare the first night when we realized the little black Polish wasn't running around like the others. In fact, it was just laying there, slowly dying. Nona rolled up her sleeves and saved that chick - she hand fed it sugar water (and a little mushy food) from an eye dropper, even getting up twice in the night to give it more. By morning it was keeping right up with the others. It's still a little smaller, but definitely recovered.