Chickies Arrive!

The chickies are here!  They were shipped out from Murray McMurray on Friday, May 6th.  I got a phone call on Saturday afternoon from the post office up in Champaign to let me know that they were there and that I could come pick them up, if I wanted to.  We were not able to make the two hour drive, so would have to wait until Monday for them to arrive at our little local PO.  The birds would be fine, as they are able to survive at least three days without any food.  They would do well on the nutrients that they had from the egg. 

The area I was setting up for the brooder was not quite ready.  I hurried to get that done and we would need to make a trip to town for another heat bulb and something for litter... Rural King was out of pine shavings, but they had ground cobs.  We'll see how well those perform, I guess. 

Sumatra chick