The 20 lovely baby girls have arrived!
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| SG's already being a "Mother Hen!" |
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| Picking the fuzzy little bundles of joy up at the farm supply store with SG. |
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| Checking out their new digs! |
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| A little water-cooler chit chat already! |
My husband is fairly certain that I'll be sleeping on a lounge chair in the garage tonight beside the brooder. I don't know about all that, but they are kinda hard to take your eyes off of.
On the other hand, I found myself perusing some of favorite chicken books and websites last night "just to make sure" I had everything done. Then this morning, I checked the thermometer in my brooder to find it was only at 80 degrees!! What!? In need 95 degrees, where am I going to get 15 more degrees in the next two hours? I flew down to my friendly neighborhood hardware store to get another reflector lamp, rushed home, set it up. And two hours later? My brooder was at 81 degrees!!
Thankfully, my Mom walked in about this time. She was raised on a farm. Had a pet cow, showed sheep at the county fair, whole nine yards. Mom says, "you need to cover the end of your tank with a blanket, your losing all your heat." Oh, well why didn't I think of that? Instead, I was running around like a chicken with it's ....eww, never mind.
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| Mom, aka Grammy, & SG |
Interesting note: SG is a member of the same 4 H club that my Mom was in almost 45+ years ago.
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