Chick life, flood, long night

So far raising chicks in our bath tub has not been as challenging as you may imagine, especially for me since Cindy is the one that is doing all of the clean up and chick maintenance. The maintenance has been cleaning up the bin 2-3 times a day, making sure they have fresh food and water, check the temperature and make sure the chicks don’t have crusty butt.  Other than that the baby chicks just scurry about making cute little chick noises as they cycle through eating, drinking, sleeping and pooping.

Cindy has been working on getting the chicks more accustomed to humans and human hands.  Last night she had her hand in the bin and a couple of the chicks were standing on it just chilling out. Even though they are only roughly two weeks old we can already see personality differences between them.

Last night I did one more small coop mod, moving the flood light that used to be mounted on chicken tractor to the inside of the chicken run.  If anything would get in the vicinity of the run at night it will be lit up like a stadium.

There were some hellacious storms overnight with booming thunder and torrential rain.  Not only did the noise wake us up, Sadie did as well.  She gets very scared during storms and wants to feel protected.  As a result she got high up on the bed and alternated pressing herself against myself and Cindy while she panted.  Cindy put her arms around Sadie to try to make her feel secure.  In total I bet I lost at least two hours of sleep, not a good thing considering I was already tired all day.  The end result of this was my oversleeping this morning.  I turned off the alarm and evidently immediately fell back asleep until 6:30.

It wasn’t a good day for me to oversleep since I had to drop off the dogs back at Ali’s place on my way to work.  The way it all shook out I arrived at work about 15 minutes late.  Being late is something that is as rare as comet sightings in my world.