Hot Chicks!

Vero, Sarah, and I took a chicken and duck class at BioFuel Oasis a couple weeks ago so as soon as the store's order of chicks arrived, Vero and I went down and picked out five. We ultimately want three chickens but because not all of them are guaranteed females, we chose five with the expectation that at least one will turn out to be a rooster. If that happens, he'll be the first on our table. The rest are for eggs.

We chose two Araucanas, one Rhode Island Red, one Black Australorp, and one Black Sex Link (the only guaranteed female). They're pretty cute and fun to watch. We took them outside the other day and let them run around. I found worms for them under rocks and they chased each other around fighting over them. They're growing pretty fast; you can see in the photo that some of the fur is already turning to feathers at the ends of the wings.