Chickie Movie

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As Pirate Guillermo and I were getting ready to go inside for lunch, we found a huge spider zipping around. We took it into the chick pen and put it down. It crawled over to the feeder and crouched down in the shavings and the chicks, who were all huddling in the corner freaking out over the noise of the garage door opening, ignored it.

I used the "chick chick trick," where I hold a handful of feed and call "here, chick chick chick." The baby chicks came running to my hand for the feed, and after they had eaten almost all of it, I threw the rest over near the spider. One of the more enterprising among them found the spider, grabbed it up, and a wild game of keep-away ensued until the chick finally swallowed the spider.

I took videos of the chicks hanging out, being chickies. They're cute.