We have peeps!

We picked up our chicks today! We've got 12- 10 are black 2 are white. They are all mixed breeds- the roo is a barred rock. The hens are white leghorns, brown leghorns, barred rocks, dominique, black australorps, blue laced Red wyandottes and easter eggers(lay green eggs). So-- we may end up with pure barred rocks, but the rest will be mixed. The 2 white ones are most likely barred rock/white leghorn mixes. They are adorable!!

We drove about 70 miles each way to meet the folks we got them from. On the way home, we ran into, through, and just ahead quite a thunderstorm. We began to see white stuff on the side of the road, and were trying to figure it out-- first I thought it might be salt left from winter, but we've had rain since the last snow, and then thought perhaps it was lime, but it was a road in the middle of nowhere.. At that point, we realized what it was-- hail. Lots of it for miles, all over the roads and pounding the car. We got through it and home about 90 seconds ahead of it-- time enough to get into the house, and get the mower covered, and shavings out of the barn (for the chicks). Since then, it poured, stormed, the sun came back out and now it's raining again!