Here are a couple of pics from today. Smokey is being a great mom, she picks out the food and breaks it up for the chicks, she rounds up the little criers when they wander away from the group. She loves every minute of it, the chicks on the other hand, are not quite so sure about the whole thing.

So far we have two of our baby chicks named.

This one was named Swoop by the Elzingas...mostly Jared.



This one was named Chickaly (chick-a-lee) by the Dell girls.


We have 2 more chicks waiting for names.

Name the silkie

So we have our 4th set of baby chicks, and this time we decided to have all of Casandra's nieces and nephews name them. There are four. One has already been taken by the Elzingas. Swoop was chosen by Jared, I guess Spencer and Kendra would approve of that. So there are 3 more chicks up for naming. The first 3 names we get from the other families will go. There are 2 white ones and one more black one. Let us know...I have a feeling one might be named Buzz Lightyear!

Update

It has been a long time since we have posted anything, and we have had a big chicken week. It started off sad, Zorro died this week. We're not sure what happened, she was fine on Friday, and on Saturday she was gone :(

Next: This week was the Utah Fancy Poultry Association Show in Farmington. It was fun to go to. We put Sugar in the show. There were probably close to 1000 birds. Sugar won Best of Variety. Here was one of the other silkies that was gorgeous. The person that owns them, I think, is named Josh Singleton...no relation, but cool that there is another Singleton up here that is raising silkies.



Finally: We bought a couple of baby chicks last night. 2 White and 2 Black Silkies.
We will have lots more pictures later, but here are a couple from last night.