It’s in the teens here today, with a chilly wind – it feels about 10 degrees out there. It is winter, so this isn’t unexpected. What’s different about today is the sunshine…it’s bright, almost glaringly so, outside. What a nice break from the cloud cover and light snow of recent past.
On days like this, we gravitate to the sunlight. You want to stretch your face up to it and let your chloroplasts begin photosynthesis – no, wait, that’s plants. Ok, maybe we produce some vitamin D, instead. The dogs and cats will find a sunny spot inside and bask in it. The rabbits’ tractors are warmed by the sun and they soak it up. The ducks, despite the cold breeze, sat in the sun, too, on the woodpile near the barn. They took a break from their foraging to gather there (just Piper, Pru, and Phoebe – Ty and Coraline were napping in the barn).
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Today, we made a wire partition in the brooder and moved the tiny batch 2 chicks from their cardboard digs to the “real” brooder. For their safety, we created a separator from leftover hardware cloth (always handy to have around, and we use plenty of it), so the month old chicks can see the three day old chicks but can’t actually reach them. 
Progress yesterday was slow, so when I woke up at 1 a.m. this morning, I made a beeline to the incubator to see if any of the pipped eggs had zipped. None had, though a couple had enlarged the initial pip so I could see little beaks moving inside and hear chirping.