Babies!

Minni the chicken momma, she's a good momma! She sat by the box the whole time they were outside watching them like a hawk!
This was the biggest chick at the time. She is an "Easter Egger". She's got steel blue legs, almost silver-y colored, she will lay green eggs.
Minni again watching her babies.
The chicks enjoyed this time outside VERY MUCH, they ate dirt, grass, bugs that they could catch and were warmed by the midnight sun. They did this funny run when I would bring them outside, with their head down and wings out to the side they ran around like crazy little crack chickens. Oh they were SO CUTE at this age.

You can barley see the one in the corner, she was the smallest one of them all, about the size of a golf ball with legs! We named her Pee Wee she was so cute and everyone wanted to hold her. Eventually she became the same size as the other Rhode Island Reds and we couldn't tell witch one she was anymore.

I miss having baby chicks.

Chicken Eggs!

Here you see two eggs, one light brown one and a green one. The light brown one is JUMBO!

Fresh EGGS! See how big the light brown one is?

Seagull Eggs.

This is how I like my seagull eggs, boiled on some toast. If you haven't eaten them before you probably wont really like them the first time you try them. They are a bit fishy, I LOVE EM!
We got these from Victor and Cathy, THANKS!!! Seagull eggs are collected in the spring, we got these last spring. They made really good omelets and were a good mix in our lunch time top ramen! I will always remember collecting seagull eggs with my cousins Charlotte and Docky, we drove down the coast from camp and filled about four buckets. That was such a fun day. I wish I could just be as carefree as I was when I was that age and subsist with out worrying about work, but we gotta pay the bills somehow.... Maybe my chickens will pay my bills and I can collect seagull eggs and do all that fun stuff, haha.

This is SO BACKWARDS!

I'm so sorry about posting pictures in a backwards order. Maybe some day when I get a nice fast Internet connection I can be a little more in order but until that day comes you all will have to be patient with my postings. :)

Finally some PICTURES!

Calvin cutting wood, John hammering wood. :)

See the big crate in the background? That provided a lot of wood.

My Chickens are Happy Chickens!

I am very proud to say my chickens are happy chickens!

A whole new look on life.

These are the nest boxes that John, Dave and I put together. The bottom box was John's idea, he thought it would give them more of an opportunity to lay in a different place.



The chicken coop is all done and ready for the chickens to be moved in. This day was very exciting. I was so happy to have them out of the back of our house.