The girls

Coop and I came home from Orscheln's last week with this tiny green box:

Four baby chicks!!

Ouch.  That doesn't look comfortable.

When we first got them home:

The black one is a Black Australorp.  But the other three came out of a "random egg layers" cage, so they could be anything.  The red one is likely a Rhode Island Red.  The mostly yellow one (with a bit of orange -- far right in the above picture; far left in the below picture) may be a Orpington or a New Hampshire Red.  And the yellow one with gray overtones -- who knows.  We won't really know for sure until the chicks grow up, but that's our best guess for now.

As of yesterday, a week after we brought them home, they're getting their feathers, including the cutest tiniest little tail feathers:

Snuggled together for sleeping.

And in other agri-business news, it appears that our bees survived the winter:

We thought for sure they'd be toast by now -- before the winter, something happened (invading bees maybe?) and they had no honey stored up to eat throughout the winter.  We fed them some sugar water a couple of times, and then just sealed them up for winter.  This weekend, we went out and found them all abuzz!  How crazy!