08 05 '24
![chick in hand](https://neufeldinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/chick-sm-480x369.jpg)
Some of our first pets were baby chicks — twenty-day-old precious Buff Orpingtons, Australorps, and Rhode Island Reds. New to chicken farming, my husband and I learned how to care for them alongside our children. I could tell on that first day, however, that one of those chicks was not like the others. It was…