I can really tell that it’s spring! Ok, well maybe it’s only a few weeks away from summer, but to me it finally feels like spring. Spring is always symbolized by hatching chicks, but since our hens didn’t get the notion to set, we never had a “real” spring. We got quite a few contributions from other school hatches in the area though, and all of the sudden we were swamped with poultry!

Around the beginning of May we found one of our bantams set on a varitety of different sized eggs! After sitting for around twenty three days – she hatched two chicks! One was hatched from a normal chicken’s egg, and one was hatched from a bantam egg!

The Bantam chick.We received around 11 Mallard ducklings from the school system. It's amazing how fast these little buggers grow! They all have different personalities, and they seem to be changing quickly before our very eyes.

One duck.

Two ducks.

Close up.

Even closer.

Itchy grass.

The regular chick peeping,  "I want my Mommie!"
Just hangin' out.

Siblings.

When Mom came back from visiting my older sister in Kentucky, she brought back a surprise, two African goslings! They fit right in with the older geese, and our gander even adopted them right away! I'll post about that later.

Aren't I cute?

Yum, I sure do like grass.