We got our first eggs! The whole family is very excited and now the kids and I have integrated a “check for eggs” section to our morning routine. We had scrambled eggs for breakfast this morning and you can really see the difference between the top 2 homemade eggs (as Zoe calls them) and the [...]
Pictures of the chickens! Go ahead and admit it that you’ve been wanting to see some of the 9 million pictures I’ve taken of the chickens. I still can’t get over how fun they are to watch and that leads to me taking more and more pictures. Thank goodness for digital cameras. Here they are [...]
Spring has sprung, the chickens go outside and the veggies have started to grow. I’m kind of astonished, but I’ll roll with it for now. There’s a lot more that we need to do but its nice to stop and have a look at what is happening. The chickens are getting used to coming outside: [...]
The chicken coop is done! Everyone, especially the chickens, is happier now. In the last week, they had really gotten too big to be in the space we had for them so we were rushing to get it done. The 43 inches of snow in February really set us back, but I guess that’s part [...]
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The Post Office called at 6:15 this morning to tell us that our chicks had just come in. Yay! They are so cute and we are so excited. All 27 survived the trip so far and they all appear to be eating, drinking and moving around quite well. There’s one little one that I’m particularly [...]