New to the crew...

On Sunday, 2/12/12, we lost 4 of our beautiful chickens to, what appears to have been, a weasel. I drove into my driveway around 8:00 pm and saw little shiny eyes (not belonging to one of our animals) in the paddock.  Along with those eyes - 4 deceased chickens.  A very sad thing to see because we do raise our chickens in our home while they are little and they are named and loved very much. :(
We have lost quite a few birds (including our ducks) to either this weasel or the crazy owl we have living in our woods...

So now a new, safer place to keep our birds is in the works!

But of course that now leaves us with only two chickens as our flock. Hmmm - not quite enough.

Valentine's Day comes and, since Dan knows how much I love little peeping chicks in the house (is that not the most peaceful thing to listen to?!), I get 6 gorgeous babies! Bantam Cochin chicks - the four white ones are 2 weeks old and the two black ones are 1 week old. Check them out! I need to name them all...any suggestions????