I guess we'll keep them.......

We had just about given up on our Hens when Doug discovered  two eggs about three weeks ago.


I guess we will keep them after all......
Hallie was so excited that she made a video of Duckie (Carter named her),
nesting in our backyard and laying an egg.  Well, she actually missed the laying part, but just picture a hen in labor making lots of noise for about 2-3 minutes and you'll get the picture.  It's so funny when the kids hear a hen laying an egg because then it's a race to get their shoes on and they run outside and to see who gets to retrieve it.  I know the novelty will wear off, but for now we are enjoying it.  It really is rather easy entertainment.

With the cold weather lately  the hens have pretty much been cooped up in their coop.
However, when the kids are playing in the backyard, they'll let them out for a while  (or a day or two when they/we forget).

We are getting three eggs a day and we never seem to run out of eggs anymore.

Yay for Hens that actually lay eggs. 

Baby Chicks

Friday Night after Nadya's Gymnastics meet, we  came home to these:

7 Baby Chicks!!!!!!!

The girls saw the light from the cage and instantly bolted from the van, 

calling dibs on specific chicks.

Doug took the boys to get the chicks earlier that night..  He picked the chicks up from his work and kept them in a box.  On the way home, he kept stopping and getting out of the truck for a few minutes waiting for the boys to peek into the box.  The chicks were chirping away and he didn't hear a peep out of the boys, and every time he got out of the truck the boys were perfectly behaved and stayed in their car seat.  (Go figure???)  Finally- the third time Doug stopped the boys curiously peeked into the box and yelled, "Daddy, we have baby birds!"  Cute, cute, boys!  

Our plan is to keep the girls and eat their eggs.  We are hoping that at least 4 of them are females.  Doug claims the boys will be dinner, but we'll just see about that.  I really don't care what he does with them, but I can't won't eat them.  (Maybe I'll change my mind later when I am sick of them, but currently they are cute little chicks!)

They are sooooo cute! 

(Yes, the kids too!)