The Book Lady With A Chicken Problem

I am very late in posting this.  I spent a week at home with Covid, not being able to celebrate the 1st birthday of my smelly Duck Nugget trio. We also added 8 chicks to the garage brooder.  Life has been a little busy and crazy.   I cannot believe it has been one year since I became a duck momma!  And what a fun, hilarious, smelly, crazy, wet, interesting, informative year it has been.  Ducks and chickens are like night and day.  Totally different animals.  But I have enjoyed every minute with them! After spending some time with the Canadian Goose who took refuge on our farm for a month or so in Winter of 2022, I knew my next adventure had to be waterfowl.  I would drop hints to my hubby here and there hoping it would finally just turn in to a yes. Well one day while joking through text, he finally said 'whatever' so I took that as a yes and ran with it. I promised Lloyd if I could get ducklings, I wouldn't buy any chicks at all in 2023 (and yes I held up on that promise).

 Ya'll...while I do love Christmas (though I am way more of a Halloween girl), to me Spring is the most wonderful time of the year because it means CHICKS!  I love the preparation for chicks.  The research of breeds, the time pouring over catalogues and hatchery websites.  Watching the long range forecast to decide when the best time to get chicks in is.  Even the crap shoot it is to find what hatchery I can get breeds I want, on a date I want.  I just love chick time.   A lot of people buy their chicks at their local feed store or Tractor Supply Company.  I also do that. Sometimes you just can't say no.  Believe me, it is so hard to walk through TSC during chick days when those little peeps just call to you.  I have even had to send Lloyd in to get things so I do not tempt myself. Last Friday night we walked in to TSC to grab a bag of duck pellets and as soon as I hit the door I heard some peeping....my ears perked up...could it be???  Did TSC get chicks in early?  Luckily for