They're Here!

6:25 a.m. Ring ring. "This is your local post office calling.  We have a box of baby chicks for you to pick up as soon as possible."

They're here!!  My chicks are here!

A short drive into the village.  A knock at the back door of the small, one window post office.  A smiling face appears as the door opens, and a good morning greeting from the post mistress.  A large, peeping box changes hands.  A short drive home.  Some photographs to document the occasion. 

Little balls of fluff lifted out of the box, one by one, their tiny heads dipped into the waterer and feeder so they will know where the buffet is.  A happy sigh.  They're here.

Fifty little white broilers, some golden buff orps, some white Delawares (new for me this year), some aracauna/ameracauna ("easter eggers"), and one 'free rare chick'.  

I love McMurray Hatchery's surprise free rare chick, it's like the prize at the bottom of the Cracker Jack box.  That's him (I assume  it's a cockerel) in the picture above, the black one with the yellow pompom on his head.  I'm pretty sure he's a White Crested Black Polish.

They're here!  It's like having Christmas in July :0)