Umm - I guess it's chickens after all......

[dalthauser]

 

Long story short.......

The chicken order I canceled in January arrived this morning.  Post office said, no, I can't send it back. 

I had the brooder equipment (thanks to my parents), but nothing else. 

Had to make a side trip to Tractor Supply on the way to the post office for wood shavings and starter mash.

I scrambled to get them situated before I had to go to work.  Talk about an adrenaline rush!!

Here is another picture of them in the brooder just before I went to work.


Jeez..... if this isn't the universe deciding what is best for me, I don't know what is.

No clue what to do now.  I imagine I'll be using the vacation days coming up (Friday - Tuesday) to get going building a coop.  It will be a few weeks before they have to go outside, so that's a blessing.

p.s - they are cute and warm.  I'm actually tickled (this emotion developed AFTER I had my nervous breakdown)

Comments

Re: Congratulations!

[papoose.livejournal.com]

!!!
:(
That must be terrifying.

Re: Congratulations!

[eats-veggies.livejournal.com]

Haha - well, it was a shock. Luckily I have experience with livestock, so I was able to pull myself together and get them situated. Getting a home built for them is what I'm the most worried about. The barriers mostly as lots of predators like having chicken dinner, so you have to dig a trench and bury the fencing in a way where raccoons etc. can't burrow beneath. (or I can just let them stay inside with me.... not) :-)

Re: Congratulations!

[eats-veggies.livejournal.com]

Oops - now I realize you were talking about the chickens (duh).

Yeah, no kidding. Poor things.