FREE CYCLE!

 It has been a couple years since I have had a flock of laying hens.  I have been planning to get layers again eventually, and after watching Food, Inc  a while back, I felt compelled to get at it. To start it off I had Jackie do a project for the homeschool education fair. Using an old incubator we got as a present for Rebecca many years ago, Jackie started incubating 15 barred rock eggs 3 weeks ago today.  In the meantime, last week I got a FreeCycle email offering a flock of laying hens who were already laying!  WooHoo! 

Aren't these gals gorgeous?!  I am naming them, of course, though I cannot tell a couple of the reds apart:  Babs, Ginger, Edwina for starters :D  I love watching chickens wander around, pecking and scratching :) 

And how about Rocky here?  Coloring so much like a Columbian Wyandotte, but what about those feathered legs?  Some kind of a mix I suppose, but boy he is a looker!

AND PLUS:  Even though they must have been stressed to some extent ( 35 miles in two large cages in the back of the Suburban), we got 5 eggs on Thursday and 5 on Friday!  Today we had fresh eggs for breakfast which a couple of the T's were very hesitant to eat, not quite believing that the store eggs came into being the same way these did ;) (aside from the fact that the store eggs come from chickens that are in a terribly unhealthy environment and are fed chemicals instead of bugs and such).