My husbands birthday was this week, so we celebrated it last weekend in Clarksville. He told me it was because he wanted us to go on a date, but I found out later the real reason was that he knew Rural King was getting in a new, large shipment of chicks.
The week before he had been passing through Clarksville and was able to stop in at Rural King, "just to look" He ended up getting 7 new chicks to add to the 21 we already have in our shed. He hadn't told me about this purchase. He was planning on surprising us. It's hard to surprise a woman that checks her account and questions any little unplanned purchase.
The weekend comes, we make our way to Rural King, and like a stupid woman, I send my husband and kids in to get chicks without me. Let's just say I wasn't feeling like my self and wasn't up to going in. We ended up with 30 something chicks and 4 ducks!!
Happy Birthday!
Now I get to try and take care of them all!
There is another bin in my living room not even pictured! It's a madhouse here and bears repeating, let's not do this again!
Let's talk about these adorable ducks now. They are so much fun to watch. They take a little walk in their pool, shake their little bums, flap their midget wings, and do a little dance before grabbing a quick snack, drink a little water, then snack again. After doing a bit of research on ducklings, I found that they don't need a pool until they are about 5-6 weeks. So that pool is now gone, and they have a big chick waterer that they are still able to get their beaks into to drink. My kids picked out the male, and the yellow female, my husband picked out the two brown ducks. The kids named their ducks, Donald and Daisy. We decided to keep with the flowers and call the other two Rosie and Tulip.
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