Oops, We Did It Again

So I know I've mentioned we have chicks in my laundry room. I believe I've also mentioned that we need it to warm up so we can get them out of our house soon, especially since they are beginning to fly. But we ended up getting even more chicks Friday night. They were so cute and fluffy and tiny that we couldn't resist. Actually, there were two more breeds I wanted to try that weren't available when we got our first batch.

So now we have an even dozen chicks in my laundry room. Our newest chicklets are Goldie and Star, which are of the Gold Star breed and Blackie and Aussie, from the Black Australorp breed. Again, clever naming reigns in our home.

It has been only two weeks since we brought our first batch of chicks home but I have already forgotten how tiny and fluffy they were at first. They grow fast. I mean FAST. Last night, our newest chicks only had fluffy little "winglets" and this morning they had feathers, forming the start of full wings. It was crazy. No wings last night and now wings this morning!

Blackie and Aussie remind me of penguin chicks.

Wings mean flying. Not for our newbies quite yet but our older chicks are starting to fly. The other day, I was bringing a chick over to my oldest daughter so she could hold it and all of a sudden, it leaped off my hand and flew toward her. Unfortunately, it tried to land on her face, which didn't make for a graceful landing and caused the chick to fall onto my daughter's shoulder, scratching her cheek on its way down. My eldest was not thrilled with that but she still loves her chicks. I have known some people who have been terrified of having a bird fly into their face but not my girl. She isn't afraid of much, if anything, and still begs to play with the chicks all the time. And I mean ALL the time.