Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Chicks!

The unmistakable sound of a chick peeping. Where is it coming from??? I finally tracked it down -- under the stairs in the barn. From what I can tell, there are two hens nesting under there, and I placed the newly pipped chick under the wing of the closest hen where I saw two other chicks. I have exactly NO idea how we will extract them from where they are, or where we will house them once we've done that. I would leave them there except we have one really, really good barn cat, who is equally handy and interested in rodents and birds. Not much chance for these chicks without more protection!