It was truly as exciting as Christmas morning! The post office called at 7:00am to tell us that the chicks had

arrived and to ask us to pretty please come pick them up ASAP. John said he could hear our chicks chirping from the parking lot when he went to get them!

They came in these little boxes.

John carefully opened each box as we all huddled around, pressing in to get a better look.

Here they are all nestled into their traveling box.

Our little chicken farmer helped John by carefully placing each chick into its new home.

taking in their new digs

These black chicks are Dominique chickens. They are a beautiful, heritage breed.

These classic little yellow guys are Buff Orpingtons. They will be a buff/golden color as adults.

Oh, and these little quackers tagged along.

Funny story . . . we ordered 5 Dominques and 15 Buff Orpingtons. Then, John's brother Justin decided he'd like a few ducklings, so John called the hatchery to revise our order. When we opened our first box, we saw all 20 chicks and the 3 ducks. What could be in the 2nd box? Well, it was 5 more Dominques and 15 more Buff Orpingtons! Apparently, when the hatchery "revised" the order to add the ducks, they actually re-ordered. We can house 40 chicks for now, but they'll be over-crowded in a matter of days, so we've had to find homes for the lagniappe 20. :)

Our kids were loving every minute of it! Little Boy (age 3) said "Momma, they sound like birds!" and "They have chicken feet like our chickens!" Guess he's got it all figured out! He and I ate lunch at the elementary school with kindergartener Girl 2 today. I mentioned to her teacher that we got chicks this morning, and she let me know that she and everyone else had heard ALL about it! I love how excited our kids get about our little farming endeavors! (It makes things like cleaning out the chicken coop, which I did when I got home from lunch, so worth it! ;)