Eggs....finally

Our chickens decided to take a break starting last October. I have always refused to put a light on them in the winter as I believe it shortens their life span. Chickens are only made to lay so many eggs in their lifetime and I don't want to rush them through to the end. Now thanks to warm weather and more daylight we started getting eggs over the last few weeks. This last week I have been getting anywhere from 3-7 eggs a day. I am so much happier and the chickens are no longer being threatened with the stock pot.

However we have a layer that needs to get herself straightened out. We have had two enormous eggs in the last 3 days.

This egg weighed in at almost 4 oz and is sitting in a large egg carton next to some normal sized eggs.

I need to post some pictures of my other eggs for everyone to see. We hatched some Buckeye/Ameraucana crosses last year and now I am getting olive colored eggs on top of my blue and brown eggs. It's very exciting (eggciting?) to see all the different colored eggs.

Anyone else have chickens that are finally laying?

One of my friends on facebook had a link to this article a couple of days ago. It really reinforces why I do what I do. Yes farming, even on a small scale, is hard work but the quality of the meat and produce is so much better than anything you can buy in a grocery store.

I agree with Ohiofarmgirl more people need to take control of their food and raise a small garden. get a couple of chicken or if that isn't an option, shop at local farmers markets and support your local businesses.

Updates

It has been a very long time since I posted. Life got in the way and we had a lot of things going on. Biggest thing is that in November we found out we were expecting child number 4 and I got all day morning sickness until about the 5th month. Plus we had swim, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, the holidays, and life just got in the way. I am going to make an effort to post at least 2 - 3 times a week until baby comes. So onto the updates, it's going to be long.

We are expecting baby number 4 in July



And for the most important part, it is a BOY! This will be boy number 3.

Me on the right at 26 weeks

My best friend whom I have know for 29 years is also due with a baby in 2 weeks. We did a maternity picture session and got our pictures taken together so we could remember being pregnant at the same time.

I will talk more about my pregnancy in later posts.

Sunday we went and picked up the newest member of the farm

Our new baby LaMancha

This is my daughters new goat that she will be showing for 4-H. It is a 3 week old mini LaMancha/LaMancha cross doeling, who has been named Ingrid. You will notice that she has a coat on, this is to keep her warm as our nights have been dipping into the 30's and she was very cold the first night.

The first couple of days were tough trying to get her to take a bottle. She seems to be getting the hang of it now and is eating well. Our other 3 goats are still getting used to her and working out the pecking order. Here is a funny picture of them from yesterday, when they all tried to come out of the goat house at the same time.

That is probably a long enough update for today. I will definitely be posting more for awhile, at least until baby boy arrives.