city chicks

We recently adopted two baby chicks from the Monroe Feed Store in Monroe, WA. Picking out chicks is an agonizing task. How do you pick just two? They're all equally cute and all equally deserving of a happy home. Furthermore, by picking those particular two you may be dooming the others to a short unhappy life that ends with roasted chicken on somebody's dinner table. These chickens were to be coddled pets, raised in the backyard in the middle of Seattle and fed the most delicious chicken-friendly delicacies (more on this to come). After finally selecting one Buff Orpington (having heard this was "the friendliest breed of bird you'll ever meet") and one Barred Plymouth Rock, we closed them up in a little cardboard box and loaded down with chicken supplies (chicken starter food, waterer, feeder, heat lamp & bulb) we scurried out to the car and blasted the heat on the box to keep them warm all the way back to Seattle...