OMLET coop: Eglu!

I read about these a while back... and my friend Jeremy sent the link to me, so I figured I would share it with y'all. Check it out. Pretty cool chicken coop. Great for the burbs! Check out OMLET!

21 eggs from Barb so far...

She's the only one laying... weird. All the hens are living happily together now. They are all getting along. Phew! Our son found 6 eggs that were hidden by the coop this weekend... that brings us to a total of 21 eggs gathered so far. Go Barb!!!!

Joke of the Day

I found this on a blog... thought it was appropriate!

Chicken escaped! CHICKEN RUN!

So I put Jimmy in with Sookie. Incase you don't remember, Sookie was the ill chicken that we had to quarantine for a while... when we tried to put her back with the flock, her 4 sisters attacked her. So she's been living by herself for a good couple months now. Lonely chicken. Well, I read in a book the other day, that you start with your lowest ranking chicken and slowly put them all together in an open new space. And do it at night. So I did. I started with Jimmy and took her out there a few nights ago and she and Sookie seem to be getting along fine. Well, last night, I got home late and checked on the two, out in the big open fenced in garden, and there was no sign of Jimmy. I looked for a half an hour... finally, I found her. She flew out somehow, over the 8 foot fencing and was sitting in the dark perched on the back deck railing. Anyhoo... here are the two of them. I gotta put another chicken in there tonight. I think I will grab Betty.

Raising Backyard Chickens: newyorker.com

Susan Orlean on raising backyard chickens: newyorker.com

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Chicken Dominos and Chicken Drinking

Two images that came my way this week.

One (Tracey, Oakville, Ontario) Chicken Dominos. WEIRD!

Two (Jon, Mansfield, Ohio) His 9 thirsty hens drinking water.

FINALLY! We got eggs!

So yeah! It's celebration time! Barb has laid an egg a day since Thursday the 17th. What a glorious day! That little tart made some yumminess for our breakfast.

Here are some pictures...

first two eggs (overcast sky blue, which will ALWAYS be Barb's egg color)... you can see the size compared to my feet. Little smaller than the average egg. Then what they look like in a carton... then what they looked like fried up... then scrambled with toast and garden tomatoes... and to top it off, Grandma Mary's home made concord grape juice from their harvest next door. YUM!