Eggs that is. Three a day…EVERY day! Loving my hens.
chickens
Chickens and Mash
I was reading up a little on chickens and saw something about making a mash for your chickens. I decided to give it a try.
Oatmeal, dried cranberries, and garlic mixed with warm water.
I made this about two weeks ago and brought it out.
Shortwing, Bonecrusher, and Diva enjoying their mash.
They LOVE it!!! So I whip up a batch every morning and they meet me at the door with their cute little “coos”.
Coop Excitement!
My husband finished the new chicken coop and run!!!
The new run attached to the new coop.
They are ready for their morning treats!
Entrance to the new coop.
Diva, Shortwing and Bone Crusher enjoying their new digs!
A use for carrot greens
Chickens LOVE them!
Woo Hoo!!
The carrot greens only lasted a few hours under the relentless pecking of these three hens!
Chickens!
Our chickens are doing so well! The have grown by leaps and bounds since last June when we brought them home as teeny tiny little chicks.
Short Wing.
I know I’m not supposed to have favorites, but this one, Short Wing, is my favorite. She’s really smart – she can get out of any enclosure and figured out how to follow the cat into the house through the cat door. Imagine our surprise when we heard a fuss in the living room and there was our chicken chasing our cat around the room!!
Diva
This hen lays the biggest eggs with the brightest colored egg yolks.
Bonecrusher is the spotted one.
The spotted one lays the brown eggs – and she is the biggest hen.
Whew! Look at all these eggs!
We get three eggs a day and sometimes we don’t eat them quick enough. Looks like it’s time for some baking!
Normal Breakfast
We brought chickens home in June 2014. They started laying eggs a couple of months ago and the kids love to collect the eggs. We usually get one to two everyday. I think one of our chickens is not laying eggs yet.
Scrambled eggs.
Every morning after they collect eggs, I cook them up. The kids love scrambled eggs. I do have to add store bought eggs because with 5 kids eating scrambled eggs we use 6-8 eggs each morning. I am required to cook them separately – our eggs must be kept separate from the store eggs because they taste different. The child that collects the eggs, get to eat them that day. As you can imagine, the egg collecting chore is high on the list of chores to do!
Eggs!!
Back in June we brought little baby chicks into our home and slowly but surely they have grown into full fledged hens. We have learned a lot about chickens! 1. Yes, they do fly. 2. Yes, they are smart! 3. They will escape their chicken run whenever they can!
Eggs
Once they started laying eggs, the kids were so excited! Every morning they run out to the coop to let the chickens out and to check to see if we got any eggs.
Look! A double yolker!
Sometimes the excitement continues with an egg that has two yolks!
Scrambled Eggs.
My kids like them scrambled, so on days that we get eggs, that’s what they want for breakfast.
Yum, Yum!
