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Maya asleep.. Kaya still up on store trip with Daddy!? Usually totally asleep by now.

Long day at the World Hunger Relief Farm Day today! Everyone is tired here.

Josh played the most awesome show yet! Feels
Good to get to enjoy him on stage(:








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Location:The cabin

Ordering Baby Chicks

So we ordered 15 baby chicks from Murry McMurry's Hatchery a couple weeks ago... 15 is the minimum. Gets a but pricy if you ordered all the rare and cool looking breeds like we did!? 

Okay.. So the post office called last Monday to say the chicks were in. 

We have never mail ordered chicks before. Apparently they come pretty stressed out. We lost 4 with in the first 3 days. Then Sunday night something got in their cage and ate all but three.

We now have three precious baby chicks and have learned many lessons along the way.

1.) Always give mail ordered chicks some sweetened water right away. We used agave.

2.) Always make sure they have enough space. 1/2 sq ft per bird.

3.) Be prepared for a loss. Have enough chicks to spare.

4.) Always have a light source to keep them at 90* degrees constant.

5.) Give them the correct feed. Chick starter hopefully non GMO like we found.

We started out making our own food, I don't think it had enough protein.

6.) Make sure you have planned ahead where they will go as they grow and that there is plenty of room, safe from predators and no holes the tiny chicks can escape through!

Hopefully this is helpful to anyone ordering chicks in the future!(: 

Photo Shoot in Cameron Park

We had an awesome weekend visit from our friends Mike, Melani, and Ayla! We took them hiking at Cameron Park and had an amazing photo shoot with Melani!