Bryan (my husband) and I would really love to have a small hobby farm, but we just don't have enough yard space. Right now we sit on an acre of land. It is large enough for some fruit trees, a garden, and a fairly large yard. We decided that chickens are probably the only animal that we could raise on our small piece of land. So yesterday we loaded the kids up and headed down to Tractor Supply to check out the new baby chicks. We are planning on raising the chicks for meat. I really hope we don't get too attached. Right now they are really cute!
While we were purchasing our chicks we noticed that one had a broken leg. They store manager informed us that someone had been banging on the bin earlier and she is sure that he was trampled then. We didn't want to leave him there to die by himself so we decided to bring him home with us. We made a little cast for his leg out of a plastic straw and some first aid tape. He seems to be doing really well. He is eating and drinking and moving around. We do have him in a little spot by himself until he feels better. If all goes well he should be healed in about two weeks and ready to join his friends. I will try to take some more pictures tonight...
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| Cornish Rock Baby Chicks |
Aren't they so cute!?! We are feeding them organic chicken feed and water right now. When they get a little bigger we will let them outside so that they can eat grass and bugs too.
