I'm cute and you wanna click me!

I like your paper towels on top of the shavings. I've gotten a supply of old, soft towels that are "past it." I line the old, metal horse trough--it had a leak--with them. I layer dirt, then the shavings, then I use the towels like diapers, until the chicks are big enough to handle the shavings, alone.
I keep them clean and bleached in plastic bags in my horse-supply storage med cabinet in the barn. They serve double duty. I have them "at the ready" should I have a horse injury, which, fortunately happens maybe once in a blue moon. Just though I'd share.
The chicks are adorable!! We are incubating almost all our chicks, too. I kept one of my free EE roosters from 2012, and I'm ordering him 5 EE pullets next month. My RIR x Welsummer/EE layers are mostly laying olive green eggs that are baby blue on the insides of the shells. I'm wanting a deeper shade of blue.
 
Is it cute baby duck, chicken, and bunny season?

Keep the pictures coming!
 
Lost one of the silkies today, really kind of sad about it. It was healthy and happy... then an hour later, gone.

I know it happens, so I'm ok about it. Everything happens for a reason.

Everyone else is thriving though. So I'm happy with the babies.
 
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