A Passel of Chicks and Keets, and a Slug

Cloudy and damp today.  During my morning walk,  I came across a slug on the flowers of a black locust tree. 

The roads were covered with groups of slugs.  I wonder why they were drawn to the roads.  I haven't noticed any slug damage in my garden but my mom said that her sunflowers had been almost devoured by them. 

Since we moved here from New Mexico, we've acquired twenty chicks and fifteen baby guineas (keets).  We've had the chicks for about three weeks now.  They've lost most of their baby fluff and their feathers are growing in.  They look pretty scraggly and pitiful, and with their long legs that are out of proportion to the rest of their bodies, they look like gangly adolescents.  

 They went outside onto the grass a few days ago for the first time.  They are cautious (terrified, really) with anything new, but eventually all of them made it outside and figured out that there were wonderful things to be found in the grass.  Some discovered the pleasures of a dust bath. 

The keets came in the mail just a couple of days ago.  They are much smaller than the chicks were when they arrived.  And I can't tell them apart at all.  They're all brown with brown stripes. 

 They're very unsteady on their legs.  They tip over face-first into the water and struggle to right themselves.  They fall asleep standing up and then fall down, all a-sprawl with their legs sticking out in all directions.