New Chicks

Here is a picture of the trap left by the Fish and Game Department. It didn't catch anything after a week of being out in the backyard, and now it is gone. But so far we haven't had any more visits by either the cat or the javelinas, and all is well with the 4 chickens that we have left.

So... we decided to start all over again. Here are the new baby chicks - 26 Black Star chickens and 1 exotic chicken, which we think is a Buff Cochin.



They make wonderful little peeping noises all the time without ever opening their beaks. It's so cute.



Sometimes they get pasty butts when they are first born, and this has to be cleaned off. I let Paul do that.