Last weekend was a big one for the chicks. We went away to Napa for the weekend to drink wine and ride a tandem bike, and the chicks were left alone for the first time.
They had plenty of food and water. We have big containers that we fill up, and they will eat and drink as needed. We timed their heat lamp to go on before it got dark, which is their cue to head into their coop for the night. Now that they are bigger and fatter, their bodies have adjusted to the weather and they would actually be fine without the heat. But like I've said before, we spoil them...
The day we left, when I checked on them I could see their latest project---hole digging. Big holes. They had dug around the stump that their water was on top of, so that the water container had tilted and almost had spilled out. Bad chicks!
A quick remedy of filling the holes with dirt and throwing a bunch of weeds in the cage to keep them busy, and we were off for the weekend.
When we returned home Sunday afternoon, all was well. Happy chicks, looking to us for more treats.
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