First Eggs

Our chickens laid eggs the next day! We had been told that they may not lay for up to two weeks, that they may need an adjusment period. The kids were so excited!

Michael and Annie holding the eggs.

 

 

Annie's chicken, Snowball.

 

 

 

Liberty lays green eggs.

 

 

The other 2 lay brown eggs or pink as the kids call them.

 

 

Jake with an egg.

 

 

Jaileigh

 

 

Anthony sucking on ice.

 

 

Annie

 

 

Michael

 

 

These girls are so funny. They love to hang out at our back doors.

 

So far they have been really easy to take care of. My kids love to check on them especially Annie and Jake. I think they go check for eggs 100 times a day. The minute the sun goes down they go in their coop. I lock them in for the night and then unlock it in the morning when the sun is rising. We haven't had any problems yet. I'm sure when we go out of town we are going to struggle finding someone to care for them.

Chickens

The whole reason we visited Sea World a second time so close to the first time is CHICKENS! We found some chickens and a coop on Craig's list that were near Sea World. So, Tuesday morning I loaded the kids and our trailer and headed down to San Diego. I did learn that you cannot tow a trailer and use the express lanes.  Thankfully I learned it before the highway patrol saw me. I did travel the whole way, minus the last 8 miles before I figured out I wasn't supposed to be in there though, missing a huge traffic jam from a multi-car pile up. We visited Sea World (previous post) and then went to pick up the chickens. The lady that sold them to us was pretty sad to see them go but her yard was tiny and she was trying to garden. Her son and his friend were there and helped to lift the coop in the trailer. We made it home without hitting rush hour traffic and before dark. We had to wait for daddy to get home to help unload the trailer.

Our new girls- Zebrahead, Liberty (in back), Honeybun, and Snowball
Liberty lays green eggs and the other 3 lay brown eggs.

 

Jaileigh claimed Honeybun as hers and changed her name to
"Chicken-Hamburger-Jasmine-Honeybun"

I was running back and forth from the front yard to the back yard. In one of my back yard visits I caught Anthony swinging one of the chickens around by her tail feathers. We had a long discussion on being NICE! If he gets caught being naughty or mean to the chickens again he gets his skinny jeans taken away.



Chickens

My mom and dads neighbor have a chicken coop with 6 chickens. We are entertaining the idea of getting chickens because we eat so many eggs. We eat 8-12 eggs a day at our house. I think the kids would have so much fun with the chickens too. They really, really want a pet besides our beta fish, Elmo. I'm still researching the whole chicken idea to see if I could handle it.

Eli, the neighbor boy, let the kids gather his eggs. I only had Jake and Michael with me, the other kids were napping. He sent us home with 16 eggs which we ate in our first day home.

 

Jake

 

 

Michael holding his egg.

 

 

I'm trying to convince Mike to build this, instead of buying a pre-made one.