Peep peep peep!

We are now the proud "parents" of thirteen "sex-links"chicks, seven black and six red (well, more like yellow-and-brown right now!), trucked to us yesterday from Frey's Hatchery in lovely St. Jacobs, Ontario. These girls (Sex-Links can be reliably sexed at hatching) are our future laying hens and will not be on the dinner table. But yes, I admit it, we will eat their unhatched children, aka eggs.

The chicks are Harco Black and Shaver Red Sex-Links. You can learn more about those breeds on the Frey's site. Click on "Chickens", then "Breeds", the "Dual Purpose Brown Egg Layers."

But mostly, they are just AWFULLY CUTE:


Here's the Chicken Whisperer, looking at the thirteen new girls in his life:

They eat, drink, poop, peep and sleep!

The Proud Chicken Papa, with one little black chick peeking up at me.

The chicks are currently residing in a cardboard box in our guestroom (which is to a me a pink floral nightmare. Lucky you, the pink painted walls don't appear in this picture. Eventually I will be stripping that wallpaper!!! My apologies to those who love pink. I'm not much of a girly-girl!) I suspect the chicks mind the pink less than I do.

A little red hen-to-be!

And a little black hen-to-be!

I'll take some better pics today in the daylight, without the infra-red glow. My dog Tristan has gotten extra-clingy since the chicks arrived. I think he is worried about being replaced by something cuter than him. Not to worry, my Vizsladorable* boy, you'll always outrank the chickens. Just don't eat them, okay?

*Tristan is a Vizsla-Labrador cross, and a rescue dog.



"Look at me. I am so much cuter than a dumb bird!"