That’s been the sick joke here lately. Chicks on sticks. Why? Because my chicks have been dying off like crazy. Okay, that’s a lie. Only five have died… since I opened the box last Tuesday morning. The rest were dead when I got them.

I officially have 8 chicks - at this moment. Here they are - except for the one with the pink dot - she died.

I ordered 29, got 13 alive (I never wanted to know what 16 squashed chicks look like, but now I do), and lost five in the next two days. The other 8 are healthy and chirping and happy.

Oh, and terrified of me. Of course. I’m trying to tame them down, handle them every day, all that bull.

But you know… it’s hard to capture them in this kiddie pool brooder - it’s too far across to just reach in and snatch one up, and so I have to frighten the shit out of them in my attempts to touch them. Not so cool.

But early this morning, I should be getting more. Hopefully not on Tuesday again - that seems a recipe for disaster. The hatchery has a 100% live guarantee, so they issued a replacement box of 22 chicks on Saturday, so here we go again, eh?

In other news… I’m knitting some more! Working away at Bakcyard Leaves again, and got another two repeats done last night. I would’ve maybe got a similar number done tonight, but… I left my new ball at home. So poo. I only have enough for maybe one. Maybe.

And speaking of… I ordered one more ball of yarn, and naturally, it’s a different dye lot. But I couldn’t even request them to check dye lots, because the earlier gropu of balls had no… no dye-lot stamp on them. At all. Didn’t even have the color name marked down. Suck.

So the very end of my scarf will be a slightly different shade. With this pattern, and the slip stitch border, I just don’t see being able to switch back and forth between balls every row to hide the differences. Damn, eh?

Oh well. Probably no one but me will notice. And if they do, screw them.

3 Comments »

1. ewwww… squished chicks…

   The live ones are cute!

   Comment by SP — April 16, 2007 @ 11:45 am

2. They’re so sweet and fluffy! I love the little dark ones, especially.

   I would not have handled the dead/dying chicks very well… especially so many of them! Poor little things.

   Comment by Turtleheart — April 16, 2007 @ 11:04 pm

3. Hey pal! Sorry about those poor little squashed chicks. That’s terrible.
   You should send pictures of your chicks to cuteoverload.com. I love that website.

   Talk to ya later!

   Comment by Her Yarnness — April 17, 2007 @ 8:51 am

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