07/29/2025
We hatched a clutch of chicks earlier this summer — a highlight of the season for our kids, who helped care for them from day one. 🐣💛
We’re keeping three to raise with our flock and have found a wonderful home for the other chicks and a couple of our adult hens. At just about a month old, it’s still too early to know who’s a hen or a roo — but we’re adopting them out now so their new family can raise them through the rest of their chickhood.
Hatching chicks has been a gentle, hands-on way for our kids to learn:
— How to gently care for the vulnerable
— That livestock "needs" come before screen time "wants"
— That sometimes you do everything right, but things don't go as planned. We just do our best.
It’s a process rooted in curiosity, responsibility, and sometimes letting go — all valuable lessons in growing up and growing a homestead. 🌱
