Usually I prepare a bit of a story for you, my favorite readers, on Saturday – a continuation of the ever-popular stink bug story. But not today. I’ve been a little distracted. I’ll share the tale with tweets.
It started with my husband calling for me. ‘Honey! I need your help! We have chicks!’
Houston, we have a distraction. An adorable distraction! twitter.com/paleololigo/st…
— Penny Higgins (@paleololigo) May 25, 2013
//platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsWe hadn’t expected them to hatch for a few more days, so we were mostly unprepared. Luckily, we already had a brooder, and all we needed was more chick feed.
Almost out! twitter.com/paleololigo/st…
— Penny Higgins (@paleololigo) May 25, 2013
Yes, I’m cute twitter.com/paleololigo/st…
— Penny Higgins (@paleololigo) May 25, 2013
Peek-a-boo! twitter.com/paleololigo/st…
— Penny Higgins (@paleololigo) May 25, 2013
Chicken heap twitter.com/paleololigo/st…
— Penny Higgins (@paleololigo) May 25, 2013
So cool! You can see their little egg teeth! twitter.com/paleololigo/st…
— Penny Higgins (@paleololigo) May 25, 2013
Fifteen chicks in the brooder. At least eight more eggs pipped and peeps coming from the incubator.
— Penny Higgins (@paleololigo) May 26, 2013
As of this writing we have fifteen fluffy chicks and a bunch more eggs getting ready to hatch. They are so adorable. And they’re a joy to see when in the last couple of weeks we’ve lost several of our hens to predators. The legacies of our lost hens live on!
Penny Higgins - Storyteller • Artist • Scientist 
Those chicks are so adorable! ^_^
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