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Starting Over . . . Again!

Yesterday was the day!  Our 27 new chicks arrived at the post office!  Delaney and I went to greet the box of peeping chicks and take them to their new home.  Chelan and Caiden had set everything up the day before, so all we had to do was take them out of the box and put them in the stock tank.  Delaney's exact words during this process were, "Oh my!  Oh my!  Oh my!"

So, we're starting our flock over again.  We are hopeful that these chicks will stay out of harm's way (aka raccoons)!
It looks like these chicks came all the way from Iowa.

They added 1 "rare exotic" chick to our order.
Can you see it?  It will be interesting to see
what it will end up looking like.

This was the first brave chick to try the water!

For some reason, Delaney immediately got a stick.
I think it's because when we work with cows,
we use sticks.  She automatically assumed we
would need sticks to herd these chicks around!

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