I was struck by this desire to dive into life this spring. I don't want to hang around watching spring happen all around us and have our life on pause just because the house is for sale.
This led me to blithely order bantie chicks when I was at the Firth Mill. Then I figured if I was getting banties I might as well get a few laying hens too, and one thing led to another.... Then I forgot all about it because we went to Texas for a week.
The day after we got back I got this message on my phone: "Hello Mrs. Wadsworth this is Clyde at the Firth Mill. I have the 40 baby chicks for you that you ordered. My incubators are full, so come get them."
40 birds???! What was I thinking?? 40? I mean carpe diem and all, but this seemed a bit much, even for me.
I called Clyde back, and true to form he was very grumpy (he is either extremely charming, or very grumpy) "Well, you better come get them soon," he said, "I'm not putting them in my incubators and if you don't hurry up they're going to die."
"They better not die! I'm coming!"
Granny and I headed to Firth. Then he very nicely put them all in our makeshift nursery in the garage.
I did all sorts of extra healthy things for them: drops of probiotics and minerals in the water, Thorvin kelp sprinkled on their food, wheat soaked in clabber, and hard boiled eggs in addition to their regular food. The kids think feeding them hard boiled eggs is making them into canabals. (how do you spell cannabal??) Anyway, I don't know if it does or not, but I got the idea from Joel Salatin, and the baby chicks love hard boiled eggs.
They are all super, duper healthy.
After a week and a half I decided we had waaaay too many baby chicks. I put an add on Craigs List and got rid of about half of them. (One guy wanted to buy all of them and have me ship them to Tremonton. uh, no. Then he wanted me to meet him half way in Pocatello. What? We are talking about $4 here.... people are odd.)
We still have too many, but they are thriving and very happy.
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