It Begins

After years of kicking the idea around, hemming and hawing, should we or shouldn't we, we've finally decided: Yes, backyard chickens. Our chicks have been ordered and are due to arrive just after Memorial Day. We ordered two Delawares:











And two Easter Eggers:


If the question you are asking yourself is "OMG, aren't they cute?", the answer is yes.
For the first four weeks we will keep them warm in a large cardboard box, probably in a corner of the dining room. Better yet, one of the spare bedrooms. We'll see, I have to run it by Renae. In that time I will be finishing the coop, which will be the storage shed behind the garage. It is only cleaned out right now. I will have to put in the roosts, waterer and feeder, and nesting boxes. I will also have to construct a frame to attach the chicken wire to in what will be their pen. At this point though, all I have to show is what our chickens will look like.