MEET THE GIRLS

So we are raising Chicks for the first time ever and I am really enjoying it. These are my girls: Punkin', Lucy, Lolita, Nugget, Loretta Hen, J-Lo (My husband's choice since she had a big puff ball booty when she was a tiny thing), Scarlett, and Rosy. I had no idea that they could be so fun and have such different personalities. You think that their just chickens and they aren't very smart but they actually are pretty smart and very curious. It's been really fun to watch them grow and They grow so fast. They are now 4 weeks old and getting restless. It's supposed to be beautiful today so we are going to try letting them outside in the run for the first time today and try to get them used to it since they will be leaving the indoors for their permanent home outside in a couple weeks. My husband is not quite as attached to them as I am. He just sees them as his future little sweatshop of egg-layers, but to me they are my critters. I can't wait until they get to be outside permanently though because they do create quite a mess for sure. We've introduced one of my labs to the chickens and he seems to find them interesting but he doesn't really care about them…. he is my gentle giant. My other lab Sage is another story. Every time I say chickens she licks her lips and that  makes me nervous, so she has not spent time near them. 
And so the little homestead adventure begins. I did recently also take a class on bee keeping and I'm considering that as a future quest, but for now here is what I learned in that class:
1) Bees are crazy complex little creatures
2) Bee keeping is expensive and complicated shit
3)I'm still very much interested in beekeeping, but not anytime soon. I think I'll stick with my chicks for now and see how that goes first :)

Until Later All. It's time to go feed the little ones, and so I'm off for now
Have a wonderful weekend bloggers!
Sandianajones