Today is a happy day for my people!
So there I was, working hard on the land grinding some more stumps. My son, "Monster Truck the Pepper" was there at my side, sleeping again...
Suddenly, out of seemingly nowhere, I heard my cell phone ringing over the roar of the tractor engine. Thankfully, I had just grabbed it off the charger in the truck when I got my camera to photograph my sleeping "helper."
"This is @papa-pepper. Talk to me baby."
I answered the phone in my normal manner and waited for the reply. On the other end was @mama-pepper, and I could hear the excitement in her voice as she said to me, "Papa guess what!"
"WE'VE GOT CHICKS!"
Immediately I woke up Monster Truck, shut off the tractor and grabbed by camera so I could vlog while I drove!
DREAMS ARE MERGING WITH REALITY
For us, this is just more of our vision coming true. We have enough chickens still making eggs for us so we have been letting the broody ones sit. Every once in a while a foul one will break and stink, but otherwise nothing new has been happening.
Our first egg also came for us while we were on steemit, which was 11 months ago. Now, we have hatched our first chick. Some months ago, we had tried to incubate some with an incubator, but the humidity was off and nothing ever came of it.
To see this little chick hiding under the wing of its mother is an amazing sight. For us, it means that there is a chance that we will never need to buy eggs or chicken again. Now that would be amazing! Personally, I love seeing life just reproduce itself like this, and the baby animals are so cute. It was a happy day for all of us.
In situations like this, it almost looks like the new chick is waiting with its mother, just hoping that another egg pops open and a new sibling comes out. There is no guarantee that any others will hatch, or that this one will make it through the night, but we are optimistic.
The randomness of these life events working on the homestead can be a lot of fun, and some of the events keep things very exciting and encouraging. Today was one of those days for us! As an added bonus, if anyone actually watches the video and is the first to reply with the name of this chick, I'll give you 10 STEEM! Just be the first to reply with the correct name from the video!
As always, I'm @papa-pepper and here's the proof:
proof-of-our-first-chick
Until next time…
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