Okay....to set this up.....in April for some unknown reason I decided I wanted some chickens. We have the space, we had the building, and the chickens were cheap. Who knows why, but we got them. We painted the building, built the fence and the rest is history. We started with 17, then 9, now 8 (last week some unknown critter got one. All we found were feathers!). The many roosters we gave away (ok...two are in the freezer, but the rest we gave away!), we only have two left to wake us up at 5:30 every morning. Truth be told we thought we were down to only one rooster, but all of a sudden another one started making noise, now I can't get rid of him.
They are so tame now that they actually think they need to be near us in the house! The dogs have no problem with them at all, Tai likes to chase a little bit, Roxie just walks right on by.
Supposedly when the roosters are at the age to start crowing, the hens will be at the age to start laying eggs. Well, the roosters have been crowing for at least 2 months now, and no eggs. Until Tuesday.... 2 eggs! Okay, to be fair....one egg is really the size of 1/2 a regular egg and they are funky colors (kind of blue and brown), but we actually finally have eggs! We had two more today. The two on the right are our chicken's eggs, the one on the left is a regular store-bought egg. Not much of a meal, but whatever. I don't know what we will do with them come winter or how long we will keep them, but for now I am enjoying my chickens.
(don't look at my burnt countertop....didn't notice it until I posted it here. That's a whole 'nother story!) And what's the deal with my weird hand?
TTFN!
