Eventually, we'll even hatch a few on purpose!
This was an unexpected surprise today! While working on a few chores, we were trying to "straighten out" some of the eggs. A duck was sitting on some duck eggs, with some chicken eggs mixed in. Pinkie-Pepper went to put them under a chicken instead, and guess what she found!
Yeah, you probably already read the title to this post, and saw the cover image, but you're right! It was the first chick of the year on our homestead! We plan on hatching out a whole batch in the incubator before summer ends, but we still let the chickens have their fun if they want to too, and it pays! Hopefully, we will never need to buy chickens or eggs ever again, and if we need to diversify the genetics, perhaps we can just work out a trade with another homesteader. How cool would that be?
WELCOME TO THE WORLD MY NEW LITTLE FRIEND!
Here is the vlog that I made when Pinkie-Pepper notified me. Events like this are always a happy time around the homestead! Check it out!
As always, I'm 
@papa-pepper and here's the proof:
proof-of-little-chick-of-the-year
Until next time…
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