New Additions for 2018

Awe, New Babies <3

I will admit even though we really don't need more chickens it just wouldn't be right not to have a tank fully of peeping babies to cuddle to get me though my cabin fever part of the year.

This year we didn't go over board (yet) with chicken additions.  We went with just Bantam Chicks and Meat Birds.  I know its a bit backwards to get the biggest and smallest birds available but like I said we didn't need a ton of new chickens this year.  At first we were not adding any (insert sad face) but then we decided if we could get a new breed to add to our flock or just a few more meat birds and then well we were just going to get some chickens, not a lot but some and then it was just one breed.......anyway we got a few new chicks.  

The bantams from last year have just turned out to be the friendliest chickens of all our chickens so we knew we wanted a few more of them.  Hopefully we will have the same result again.  This is the one I call Banty Girl.  I just love her, she is friendly, will sit on your solder and let you walk all over with her like a parrot and will greet  you at the feed freezer (old chest freezer we store our feed it to keep it from rodents and scavengers) every morning soon as the coop is open.  First she will try to eat directly out of the feed scoop because she thinks she deserves first selection and then when you make her move she will jump down in the freezer and clean up any spills.

We will definitely need to keep an eye out each time we do chores now not to close her in but she usually joins the rest of the flock to eat before we are done doing chores so it hasn't been an issue yet.

Unfortunately there is a down side to all the cute little peeping that is happening in the house right now, and that is our Allergy Girl (the youngest daughter) is in full blown allergy attacks with itching, scratching, sore throat and a cough from the babies or the pine shavings or both as she is allergic to most critters, trees and dust, poor girl.  So to prevent her from having asthma attacks the chicks will be making their way down to the basement where they will be just as happy and content and she will be able to breath better.  She just loves her critters too especially her chickens and Ruby her Rhode Island Red is probably her favorite of all the critters.  Poor girl, I know with them in the basement she will still mess with them but the little feathers and dust will not float around as much in the living area of the house and that will help her out.

So from no chicks this year to a few chicks this year and lets just hope the feed store doesn't get any awesome breed of chicks in and we will be set for our new additions this year. 
That is till we get our 4-H pheasants and then turkey chicks (if we can find them close enough) and maybe a cow as its on the list too.  Obviously we have not reached out max critter addition for the year but I'll update if we do. haha