Ok y'all- we got some der chicks!

Ok - Y' all! So I have wanted chickens for several yrs now. Everyone knows I am an animal lover..but we have had to wait because we just couldn't take these on yet,being pregnant and then having a Malia as an infant would have been too much. Finally we are ready. Picked up 6 chickies on Friday( Ameraucanas, Barred Rocks & Rhode Island Reds), another 6( Blk Australorps,Golden laced Wyandottes, Buff Orpingtons) on Saturday..minus as well get everyone motivated, picked up a dozen more chicks for E and C! Would be fun to be on this journey together besides there won't be anymore chicks around until spring, then another 5-6 months for the eggs. We had to motivate! So come and visit the country life and you will find dogs, cats, dirt, bugs, and now chickens! Yeah! We are stoked. We are so excited. We are gonna get fresh eggs and chicken meat(?). Greg and I want to live a more sustainable lifestyle and this is one step towards it. We are moving at a slow pace due to small kids and having enough time. Greg is stoked on getting his own meat and has even talked about hunting for wild boar and deer etc..." I am man, hear me roar!" Then freezing it or canning it etc.. to eat. I say Greg let's start small first...how about a chicken. hee hee. Oh plus we have so much scraps that our worm bin cannot handle it all. The chickens will be able to help with this load. We are also so stoked on gathering fresh eggs, some will even be green ones too! Plus I am so excited about giving my kids this opportunity and this experience. I think they may be interested in 4H club when they are old enough. Btw-Did you know that grocery stores allow up to 60 day old eggs to be sold? Bleck! So you all will be getting some eggs soon.. We are gonna have so many eggs on the hill..we won't know what to do with all of em.


Here they are at a day old . Egg layers and dual purpose chickens. We are gonna add 2 meat birds soon. They will be ready in 4-8 weeks..
These are day olds and 2-1 week olds

Savannah already has favorites and named a few.."Princess"( ofcourse), Julie, and Rose...Don't worry we are very sanitary with them and have read and done all our research-

Here Greg has started the building of our chicken coop

1/2 done.