Red chicks and Red Betty

The chicks are only red because they are under a red heatlamp in the garage. They just arrived this morning after their long journey in a little box all the way from Hoover's Hatchery in Iowa. 

I guess time will tell whether I received one or both versions of the Olive Egger hens. The color of their feathers should make it easy to identify them as an Easter Egger/French Cuckoo Maran mix, or a Cream Legbar/Welsummer mix. I am hoping for the second because we just lost the last of our Cream Legbar chickens to some critter. But it really doesn't matter what they are, 10 little chicken mutts are good enough. We just needed some replacements for lost chickens and older hens who aren't laying much anymore.

This past weekend we sold one of our adult goats to Bob and Barton in Norwich. Red Betty is going to a nice new home where she will be spoiled. They have one other goat, and her name is Wilma. Wilma and Betty, friends again. 

Wilma is a Sable Saanen, which means she is not the pure white that is common to the breed. Our Lucille was a Sable Saanen, all black. I am working on the guys to send me a photo. If she is black, the goats have their colors mixed up. Wilma was the redhead.