Beautiful.
This one looks like a Peep.
One of my favorite things about watching the chicks is seeing them fall asleep en masse. One chick's eyes will start to get droopy, and her knees will begin to bend, sinking down, then another joins in, then another, until they are all sinking into sleep. Usually, just before the last one falls asleep they are suddenly awoken by someone doing one of the following:
- Suddenly walking across the heads and backs of the rest of the sleeping chicks,
- Pecking at another chick's eye
- Pecking at another chick's beak
- Pecking at another chick's feathers
- Pecking at a speck on the wall of the brooder
- Pecking at the numbers on the thermometer
- Pecking at the string holding the thermometer
It is kind of like a game - I am silently rooting for them all to be able to be asleep at the same time, and they never quite manage it, but I keep rooting for them anyway.
Watching them fills me with so much love and joy. I think that the loving, caring energy that surrounds backyard/homestead animals every day is a big part of why they are so happy and healthy.
fabulous blog!!!!! thank you for sharing!! we have some chicks ready to hatch any moment now!!!! exciting stuff!!! we didn't breed the goats this year, so no milk ;( and are instead, expending all our energies on our garden and bees!!!!
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