Dinner's here!

Last week Meyer Hatchery had their surplus broiler special so I ordered 25 for delivery sometime this week. Well guess what...

I got a call from the post office at 6:30am this morning letting me know that I had chicks and could pick them up anytime. Well that put a crimp in things. My husband and I had planned to ride together to work today because his truck had an issue with the brake caliper getting hot and he wasn't going to be able to get the part until tonight. So we hurried up and got the baby ready to go and dropped him off at the sitters then ran to the post office and picked up the chicks.

Now I really hadn't expected them until at least tomorrow but I thankfully I had the foresight to have my oldest get the brooder ready last night while I was busy planting garlic in the garden. So we were able to zip on home and put the chicks in the brooder, give them so water, and some feed and head to work.

Happy chicks under the heat lamp

Chicks finding the food

Of course when you are in a hurry that is when things go wrong. We heard about an accident going in the other direction on the outerbelt so I wasn't too worried, but then when we got on it was slow going in our direction. Then we passed by one of those new traffic info boards that let us know there were two accidents up ahead so we decided to detour. I finally got my husband dropped off at work at about 8:50am this morning and I got to work about 9:05am. That makes for a long day for us as I won't be able to leave to pick him up until 5pm. Just for comparison I usually drop him off at 7:30-7:45am so we were really late today.

Hopefully all is well with the chicks when I get home. I will have the older kids go out and check on them when they get home from school.