Babies!

Minni the chicken momma, she's a good momma! She sat by the box the whole time they were outside watching them like a hawk!
This was the biggest chick at the time. She is an "Easter Egger". She's got steel blue legs, almost silver-y colored, she will lay green eggs.
Minni again watching her babies.
The chicks enjoyed this time outside VERY MUCH, they ate dirt, grass, bugs that they could catch and were warmed by the midnight sun. They did this funny run when I would bring them outside, with their head down and wings out to the side they ran around like crazy little crack chickens. Oh they were SO CUTE at this age.

You can barley see the one in the corner, she was the smallest one of them all, about the size of a golf ball with legs! We named her Pee Wee she was so cute and everyone wanted to hold her. Eventually she became the same size as the other Rhode Island Reds and we couldn't tell witch one she was anymore.

I miss having baby chicks.

Chicks!

This was the only white chick, I thought maybe it would get picked on but she ended up okay.

When I first got the chicks I put them in a plastic tote, until I went to the grocery store to get a box. The boxes worked out very well, the potty pads I used for the bottom worked well but I wished I would have tried pine shavings when they were that little because pine shavings work SO MUCH BETTER! Here are some pictures for you to enjoy. The chicks were so dang cute!

Minni-Girl the Greatest Chicken Momma!

Minni the CHICKEN MOMMA!

These are my babies, in a box!?

One, Two, Three, Four, Five, wait... didn't I just count you? Sit still so I can count!

Here she is checking out a baby chick. She was so interested in them when I got them in from the post office. She never once did nip at them or paw at them (until they got bigger than her). When they were babies she acted like their mom, sleeping by the box, whining when they were chirping away, and checking on them frequently.