One year my husband and I decided to raise chickens. We started out with twelve one day old chicks. We brought them home and put them in a box with a light and shredded newspaper on the bottom. We put a screen over the top to keep Fluffy away from them. He was very interested in them and liked to watch them. We put heavy books on top of the box to keep Fluffy from lifting the screen up. After about a week we had to go back to work and leave Fluffy alone with the baby chicks. When we got home we didn’t hear any peeping sounds and seen the books and screen were knocked off the top of the box. I went over to the box and looked inside and Fluffy was in the box with all the baby chicks snuggled up against him sound asleep. Fluffy just looked up at me with a big smile on his face. The light bulb wasn’t enough heat for the baby chicks, Fluffy realized that the chicks were too cold , we just thought the peeps were peeping because that’s what they do. It never occurred to us that the chicks weren’t warm enough. Fluffy looked after the baby chicks as the grew and soon it got to the day that they were old enough to go live on their own up in the chicken coop. Every time we went outside Fluffy would run ahead up to the chicken coop to check on his chickens. Sometimes one would get out of the pen and be out in the yard somewhere. Fluffy would hunt it down and hold it to the ground with his paw and bark until Keith or I would come and get the chicken and put it back inside the pen. Fluffy was a really loving little cockapoo.
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Hey, can you remember where you got the chicks? I’m in Donegal, and struggling to find any, anywhere in the country….
Thanks
James