What's in YOUR bathtub?

It's official, I went and did it. Youngest Daughter and I went back to Western Farm Center this morning and came home with six baby chickens. I'll know there's a god if they all turn out to be female. (WFC will buy back any roosters, the 5% mistake possibility.)



The chicks are a bit less than one week old so they need a constant temperature of about 95ºF. I stuck them in the bathtub (dry, no water in it), turned on a space heater and hung an infrared lamp over them. There's a thermometer in the bathtub too, so I know what the temperature is down where they are.



Having never raised chickens before, every time I check on them I notice something new. They are voracious eaters. They drink like fish. They are in perpetual motion. They chirp happily. They are a delight to watch.