Look, it's another excuse post! It's pretty much become the norm round the ol' Blue Eyed Bliss. This time I am here to introduce you to our most recent time drain, The Flock! We added a flock of chickens and two ducks to our lives because, well, why not?!? They started out fuzzy, adorable and pretty irresistible and rapidly grew into not so fuzzy, loud, chickens and ducks. Bring on the eggs! So, my nightly routine has changed a bit. I used to tuck the kids in and then "relax" i.e. do dishes, laundry, clean floors, blog, etc. Now I tuck my human kids in and then tend the babies in the garage, the flock. We were told we would have three months to build a coop but thanks to our love and food portions, our flock is HUGE. Brett has been spending every spare minute of time building a giant coop and the flock is anxiously awaiting the grand opening of their new home.
The kids LOVE the flock. As you can see from this video just "adopting" chickens brought Brooklyn to very literal tears of joy:
The kids find the chickens and ducks to be very fascinating. They always want to help feed them or get them water and they love to hold them. Well, except for Emmett. He is still a bit to Lenny-ish to be handling fragile chickens and ducks. :) We have yet to name any of our new family members because we were (thankfully) warned that the mortality rate for chicks is pretty high and we learned that the hard way. But I think we are almost in the clear to start naming our new family member!
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| The Flock as Babies |
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| Very excited kiddos! |
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| The boys. |
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| Close-up of The Flock. |
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| Bink and a Baby Duck. |
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| Emmett, sans fowl. |
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| J-Man and the Other Baby Duck. |
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| Bink and a Chicken. |
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| Loves. |
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| Nervous smile and a chicken. |
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