Got Chicks?

With Easter in front of the door, I think it is a great subject to blog about: We've got chicks! Elsa the colored egg laying Ameraucana, Cinderella the Rhode Island Red, and, not in the picture, Snowwhite the feisty Leghorn have bonded to a flock.

Anna, the second Ameraucana or Easter-Egger as they are called,  passed away only a few days old and we gave her a decent funeral. We got her for free because she was so weak - we tried our best but she didn't make it. She will be remembered on the photo below.

All others are well and growing. They will have to stay in the brooder for three more weeks (six weeks in total) and then they can move into their chicken coop in the backyard. The City of Gilroy has passed an ordinance in 2012 that up to six chickens are allowed in the backyard. We are super excited about this new addition of our livestock.

Next year we will have Easter eggs from our own chickens, urban farmers that we are now.