Is this a gum ball? Or peanut M&M?

Look how teeny weeny this little egg is! It is like the size of a Robin's egg. This was 1 of my last Easter Egger ( green egg laying) chickens to start laying. So this is her first one. It is just so cute. I wanted to blow it out and save it but somebody else thought it was so cute too and played with it until it cracked-oopsy. Anyhow, it has an awesome color-can't wait to see some more eggs out of this gal. No yolk but a tiny yellow dot was inside.

More green eggs- out of 4 grn laying hens

The colors range from blue, aqua green and olive so far. It is fun!

Ouch, that's gotta hurt! Eggormous!

Look at these 3 Gigantic eggs! They are huge and way bigger than any eggs I have gotten. Not to mention bigger than a jumbo commercial egg. Crazy! I am sure these hurt! Well I have 3 Rhode Island Red gals so I am assuming they came from them. I wonder if they are double yokers?

Field trip to Aquarium

It is always nice to go to all these wonderful field trips with Savannah. A lot of the times I get to go with her alone so we get to have a little mommy and Savannah time. Here is her class and her teacher.

Almost our x mas/ new yr cards

The Meal

Our very first meal with our very own chicken meat. It actually turned out really good. I had read somewhere that sometimes eating a chicken over 6-8 weeks can be tough and sinewy. Also this breed of chicken was a "Dual Purpose" chicken ( eggs & edible) not the "meat" chickens/ broilers that are big, fat, double breasted ones that you normally buy from the grocery store. I am not a huge fan of dark meat so it was a little umm weird for me at first. Every bite I thought of my chicken and it was slightly creepy to me but I assume I will get over that. It would be like seeing non blemished, perfectly shiny red apples in the grocery store compared to real organic non shiny, marked apples from the tree. Just a state of mind really. Greg on the other hand gobbled it up and said it was sooo delicious! He loves dark meat. It was just ever so slightly chewier than commercial chicken you buy at the store. Can't wait to try our chickens breast meat.

Thank you " Big Daddy" RIP-not for the faint of heart.

Well as you all may know we have been striving to take some steps in being more self sustainable. We understand that we are not there yet nor nearly there but all we can do is take small baby steps. Greg has really been wanting to "process" our own meat. He said he wanted to get a deer or something, I suggested we start small with our own excess rooster- " Big Daddy". He was kind of an a** anyway which made is easier in my own mind. Greg and Cyrus plucking the feathers after dunking in boiling water. Which makes the feathers come out easily.

Grammy is here visiting from Maine. Memories and pictures to take back home..haha. She used to have a farm with chickens and pigs etc.

I heard she was such a big help with gutting the insides. Especially with the liver, heart and gizzards which supposedly are edible and somewhat a delicacy? Eww not at all appetizing for me..I really dislike any liver products..tastes like blood to me. Bleh!

It looks like we are some country hicks living on a farm in Georgia or something.

Well lots of eggs!

Well now we are getting 10 eggs a day so far..and we have plenty! One day very soon we may be gettin 17 eggs in one day. Oh my! I will have to definitely be making a lot more egg dishes. I better get good at this. We will also be giving eggs away and possibly selling some in the future? When eggs get consistent in size.



Bowl now overflowing..
These are washed and ready to give away to my first friends/family. Aren't they pretty.