Happy Harvest Blog
Itty bitty feather slippers
The little Silkie chicks are ridiculously cute. There's five of them; these two and Daisy has three, including the late silver arrival (who's doing very well). It's nice to have Silkie chicks under Silkie moms; I got used to seeing them with the fast-growing, out-sized "regular" babies. The moms are so doting, and fierce! The five are all still tiny fuzzballs, even ten days old, and you can see their feathered feet. I can already tell that this little brown one comes from the "extravagantly feathered feet" stock.
Chick disaster
One of the big ones has sprouted two odd shoulder feathers, like epaulets, sticking out by themselves. Now I know the big ones come and go from the box at will, although they spend most of their time with the flock, and I caught one tightrope walking the edge of the board, although turning the corner is still risky business. They’re so funny!
LOLchicks!
They sleep like horses, standing up. They just stop in the middle of going somewhere, the eyes blink and slowly close, then the head gets heavy and folds down with the beak tucking between the feet or else coming to rest on the ground. The falling asleep side by side face down in the food trough is especially cute.
Instagram.
I may not make a blog post every day, but at least I Insta.
Bite size.
