Four New Baby Chicks

Well it was another great weekend at the farm and even though the weather was a little cool the animals were very happy and I was able to get a lot of work done. Sunday morning was the coldest morning of the weekend and I was all bundled up with my wool hat and jacket. I did all my usual work which is cleaning all the chicken and quail cages as well as gathering all of their eggs. After I am done with that work I start on any projects that need to be done around the farm or things that Pam has asked me to do. As I was finishing up for the day on Sunday I started to hear high pitch tweets coming from one of the smaller chicken cages located right near the barn. I decided to go and investigate and to my surprise there were three new chicks hopping around as well as one that was just starting to hatch. After being on the farm for a year now this was the first time I witnessed a baby chick being born it was amazing to watch it pushing itself out of its shell. I watched for about ten minutes until the new baby chick was completly out of its shell. It was so exciting they are such little chicks but still being just minutes old the first thing that all four of them did was seek out food and their mothers warmth. Well I'll be back again at the farm tomorrow so check back soon for more stories and pictures from the City Boy on the Farm.