F I N A L L Y ......

Finally, after waiting and waiting, we now have our first two eggs. As you will see in the picture, they are small right now, but will get bigger. We are so excited.

Just a quick update on chicken counts. We have seven (7) roosters and five hens. Those are terrible odds. When we went to Tractor Supply and bought straight run chickens (didn't know the sex), we were hoping that we would have many more hens than roosters. DIDN'T HAPPEN. And, another funny thing is that we actually had three roosters killed by predators of some sort. That means we would have had TEN (10) roosters. NOT GOOD!! We don't want roosters. We want hens and we want their eggs. So, what to do...We know what to do, but I want share it on here.

Of our hens, we have beautiful Mur, named after one of my dearest friends ever, Mary. We have Charlotte, who is beautiful and red, named after a precious friend that works with Donnie, who has red hair. We have Oreo, who is black and white and crippled because a dog tried to eat her. (but boy she is determined and Beth loves her). We have Big Mama who is just perfectly named because she is fat and fluffy. And then there is Kramer...remember Kramer...with the big feathers sticking straight up on top of her head. She is a Polish Bantam. To be honest, we don't know 100% that she is a hen, but we do know that she has not crowed, she is small, and she does not seem to be chasing hens around like our other roosters. We are so hoping she's a hen.

We are still loving our chickens and even have more little chicks out in our garage that we are raising. We didn't buy these from Tractor Supply. We mail ordered these. They actually came to the post office. Crazy, isn't it? This time we were able to request all hens. NO ROOSTERS unless they gave them to us by mistake.

If we get enough eggs to share, I would love to share some with all of you, but things aren't looking so good when you only have five hens and one may not even be a hen. There may be just enough for the Kinsers to enjoy. Donnie LOVES eggs.

Aren't these eggs just lovely?

Sweet, adorable Kramer. This is BIG D!! He is a massive rooster. Look how long his legs are.