Happy Easter from Reggie, Roger and RVSue!

Hello, Bloroginos and Stealth Readers! 

This pic of chicks all dressed up for Easter Sunday isn’t one of mine.  I found it elsewhere on the internet.  It’s perfect for this post because . . . we have chicks at our house!

I brought them home a few weeks ago.

Four chicks:  one Rhode Island Red, one Barred Rock, one Buff Orpington, and a Laced Wyandotte.  My future layin’ hens.

I house them in a kiddie pool (blue plastic, $7.99).  I bought two pools.  One pool is where the chicks go.  I cut out a big square in the second pool and placed it, inverted, on top of the other one to create a roof.  The cut-out area is covered with a panel from the crew’s old, metal, foldable pen that I’ve had since 2011 (before hitting the road full-time).

This pool house is set on top of a table in the laundry room in order to keep the chicks out of reach of Reggie and Roger.   Speaking of Roger, he’s fascinated by the chicks.  He whines for me to pick him up so he can look them.  Reggie doesn’t much care.

The chicks aren’t tiny tumbleweeds any longer. 

They’re about 5, maybe 6, weeks old and most of their baby fluff is gone.  Active little devils.  Jumping, running, pecking, pooping, staging chick-races around the perimeter of the pool, kicking up pine shavings, knocking over their waterer, stepping in their feed . . . .

Accustomed to my voice and curious, they give me the chicken-eye whenever I peer through the “skylight.”

Finding a coop . . . . 

One day while walking the crew, I notice a neighbor up the street has a coop in his back yard without any chickens in it, so I inquire about it.  He says he built it for ducks that his child brought home.  Having no use for it anymore, he sells it to me for $200.

That may seem like a lot to spend on four chickens.  It is.  However, he tells me he put $600 into building it and I believe him.  It’s very well made.  Hey, I don’t want any chickens of mine living in a shabby coop!

A friend built a chicken run attached to the coop.

I painted the coop and the frame of the run so Cooptown looks pretty spiffy in the back yard.  Now that Arizona temperatures are moving into the 80s each day with lows in the 50s, and also now that the chicks are almost fully feathered, they can move out of the laundry room within the next few days.

O Happy Day!

Like moms everywhere who look forward to the day when there are no more dirty diapers to change, I can hardly wait for my little ones to graduate from their in-house nursery to the Big Chicken Coop outside!

rvsue

NOTE:   It’s late Saturday and I’m running out of steam so I’m posting this, as is, in order to have it up for Easter Sunday.  I may add more to this post in the coming days.

Dear Blogorinos, thank you for keeping the conversation going with your comments.  Know that I read each one and care about you and what is happening in your life.  Thanks also for your personal notes to me.

Reg, Rog, and I are happy, healthy, and content in our home.  Oh, and a blogorino asked about the roses . . . . Yes, they made it through the winter and we have three blooms already!    — Sue

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