Chick weekend is in full swing!  Friday, the first few hatched.  Above, two chicks are groggily exploring the brooder before sleeping off their efforts.

Saturday morning, I awoke to six fully-fluffed fuzz-balls in the incubator.  And the hatch continued throughout the morning and early afternoon.

By noon on Saturday, the sun streaming in tempted the older chicks out for a feeding frenzy.  I'm thoroughly enjoying the chicks' company while they're cute and new, but have no illusions I won't be ready to move them to the outdoor brooder before the week is out.

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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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