and all twenty survived. Yay! There are some Banties, Brown Leghorns, Anconas and Barred Rocks.
As you can see, they were all passed out asleep when they arrived.
If playing mother hen comes easy for anyone, it will be Abby. She jumped right in there and started taking care of them immediately.
Danielle’s method of petting them is more like paintbrushes on a canvas – fingertips only.
And Jadon still keeps his distance in fear of a good pecking (which they don’t peck and hopefully with enough early handling they won’t).
This itty bitty one is named Tinker Bell. It is about one-third the size of the rest. With a name like Tinker Bell, hopefully it will be a girl. :)
But the kids all love to watch them and take care of them. So far they have loved squash, peaches, apples, spinach and celery.
It will be interesting to see how they do at camp next week. All twenty will be going with all five of us! It should be a lot of fun!
And the best part will be the fresh eggs!! I can’t wait!!
This guy showed up yesterday too. He devoured some of the bread the chickens shared with him. He even came back today.
I loved this picture because you can see his tongue. Isn’t it weird to see a moist tongue amongst all that dry scaley skin?!
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