Showing posts with label chickens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chickens. Show all posts

Thursday, June 4, 2015

A girl and her chicks: A love story in pictures

Above is a picture of my oldest daughter several years ago with a baby chick. She loved her chicks.
Here she is about 5 years later with a new chick. She still loves her chicks. We have 12 adult chickens right now, and now we have 8 teenager chickens as the kids call them , and 8 new chicks. We have some neat breeds that the girls plan on showing at the fair. I'll let you know how that goes.

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

EGGS!

We love eggs. We honestly do. I have a 5 year old and 3 year old and they both adore eggs. It's great because we get them from our chickens, free range of course. And even though we love our eggs and use them for fried eggs, egg sandwiches, scrambled eggs, quiches, breakfast burritos and more, I still would have a lot of eggs that I didn't know what to do with.

I give some away of course to family and friends, I have one neighbor who will only take 3 eggs per week, she says that is all she needs.

But something else that I have started doing that we like is on Saturday I will take about a dozen eggs and hard boil them. The girls help me peel them, and I'll stick the in the fridge for the week. Sometimes my husband or even my 5 year old will have one for breakfast. I slice them up and put them in a salad, or pack one in our lunches. It's a great utlization of the eggs, and the key is to get them all finished at once, and prepared for the week. It is so much easier to boil 12 eggs at once, then to just do them whenever you would like one.

Friday, July 16, 2010

Chickens!


Our family loves our chickens. With 3 year old and 4 year old daughters, our chickens get plenty of love and attention. A few weeks back, the girls got to experience the magical experience of chickens hatching. We had 2 of our 5 hens setting at the same time, and within just a few days of each other, they hatched leaving our family proud owners of 16 new chicks! Here is a picture of "Henny" and a few of her chicks.