We received a wonderful surpise from our friends at The Castle Group – a red Radio Flyer wagon! I had been wanting one for use in hauling the girls, garden goods and eggs. So here are the girls inspecting the new “poultry porter”. Thanks Mark, Scott, Carol and Cindy!! http://fa.smithbarney.com/castlegroupsb/ Emma … ready to ride! [...]
Oprah has been coming into the chicken coop cackling for the past few days…something was up…over the weekend she laid her first egg! Oprah came in “second” in our egg laying contest. Here she is in the chicken coop quite proud of her accomplishment! And yes, you can see there are curtains and framed family photos [...]
The egg laying mystery is solved: it is our little Emma who has been busy! While I was cleaning the coop she came in, started hopping in & out of the nesting boxes and seemed anxious. She followed me out the coop’s front door, into the smaller yard and found her xylophone and started playing a tune [...]
FIRST EGG!! July 6, 2010 I found our “first” egg in the coop, on the ground next to the nesting box in the morning – Yippee! Estimated cost $5,000 Here is a re-enactment photo of how I found it in buried in the wood shavings (I was so excited I picked it up, ran in [...]
Well I guess Auntie Lil will have to be called Uncle Lil….she started crowing….eeek! Everybody told me that she was a he, since he towers over all the other chickens and bosses them around. So we have a Rooster. Rats. We ordered all hens and they gave us a free one, guess which one! I [...]
