My girls are now 22 weeks old. From left to right in the front, we have a Silver-Laced Wyandotte (black and white); Buffy, a Buff Orpington; an Ancona, some black-with-white-speckles Italian/Mediterranean hen; and a White Leghorn. In the background, big White Orpingtons. The Orpingtons and Leghorns are all very friendly and love to be petted.
A full nest, with lots of feathers, which seem to fly in the henhouse. We're getting about a dozen eggs a day now from the 25 pullets. Some very small, some bigger...but that's a lot of eggs!
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Now you need a Cook book--A million and one ways to prepare eggs. Enjoy--YUMMMMMMMMMMM
Did you know that the inside of a sheeps brain looks like cooked chicken, yes ive just discovered this last week and have not been able to look at chicken the same way
Indeed that is a lot ! The chicken look so nice, I could never eat a chicken I knew before ! I had this once in Italy, they kept the sunday chicken in the garden and it was so friendly. When it stood cooked on the table, I had to run away, I got sick ! Thanks for your comments on my blog, I will come back to you !
"One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it--it was the black kitten's fault entirely." (L. Carroll, Through the Looking Glass)
I'm Yankee-Born and Southern-Raised, which makes me kind of Southern Gothic (in the old literary sense of the word). After 15 years in the Big Apple, I spent 4 years on a farm in Michigan raising chickens and llamas and learning to spin, knit, and needle-felt. Now I'm back home in NYC with my much-beloved spouse and one crazy tortiseshell cat. You can also find me on Ravelry.com as okitten.
8 comments:
Now you need a Cook book--A million and one ways to prepare eggs.
Enjoy--YUMMMMMMMMMMM
Some pretty chickens there! The black-with-white-speckles especially is beautiful!
Did you know that the inside of a sheeps brain looks like cooked chicken, yes ive just discovered this last week and have not been able to look at chicken the same way
Indeed that is a lot ! The chicken look so nice, I could never eat a chicken I knew before ! I had this once in Italy, they kept the sunday chicken in the garden and it was so friendly. When it stood cooked on the table, I had to run away, I got sick !
Thanks for your comments on my blog, I will come back to you !
Fresh eggs. Yum! Those are some purty chickens :) Do your kitties ever try to "mess" with 'em?
(My great-grandmother had a chicken coop in SC. I used to beg my Mom for a baby chick but she said they wren't allowed in the suburbs. Shoot!)
Pretty chickies! I'm sure those chickens could take care of themselves. I've seen them chase a cat or two.
So what do ya do with all those eggs?
So, what are you DOING with all those eggs??
well, we eat as many as we can! heehee
i sell some, as well
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