Day 1

Admittedly, Day 1 was actually on March 27th, but look at how cute they were! They barely had any real feathers at all, it was just all down and fluff! I had gone up to Auburn to pick them up from a feed store, as well as the necessary feeders, waterers, and chick feed. I was ridiculously enthralled by them, and I think that by the end of the day I had told everyone and their mom that I now had four baby chickens of my own. At this point, I had no names for them, but I had several ideas.

My neighbor (I'll call her C) who gave me the chicken bug in the first place, sets categories to choose names from. For example, all her chickens are named after types of guns. All of her goats are named after cars. At first, I was thinking of categories, and the only one that I liked up to that point was the Vegetables and Herbs category. I figured I could have Butternut, Pumpkin, Rosemary, Coriander, Kale, Ambrosia...the names were a bit limited though.

While discussing categories, my mom came up with the idea of Southern Belles. I loved it! And I could think of nine or ten names off the top of my head. Needless to say, the idea stuck. The options were:

• Beula
• Lillian
• Scarlet
• Evangeline
• Josephine
• Aidella
• Charlotte
• Scarlet
• Eudora
• Jezebel
• Hattie May
• Saidee May 

So I set about watching, observing, contemplating, changing newspaper covered in chicken poo, and hoping to catch a glimpse of their personalities. All the while, I'm making sure they have plenty of water, food, and that the temperature is just right. Let me tell you something, I think I only had two hours of solid sleep the first night, and even that was fitful. (Is this how new parents feel? Ugh!) I didn't really expect to have them named right away. I was just content that they were all healthy, happy, and energetic!