Our family has grown...by 104!!

Our first batch of chickens arrived one day old! And we named everyone of them!

Meet chick and his brother chick and their sister chick :)

They are very hearty birds though we are still trying to figure out the breeds

They are definitely going to be egg layers for us (the females anyway)

The kids LOVE the baby chicks. Grace is often reaching in to grab one :)

Aunt Sue got to visit and work in the garden

Grace loves to help in the garden

Well, on the spur of a moment we saw that the local elevator had a free chick day! (Well you had to buy their feed but it was still way cheaper than just buying chicks). So we decided to get some! We have 104 and they have doubled in size in just a week! They are very aggressive (they dig and scratch a lot) so that means that they will make great eggs! Chickens eat bugs which cuts down on our bug/pest population and it adds great protein to the egg! They also eat grass which makes their eggs high in vitamins (you will not find this in confinement chickens-their eggs are high in cholesterol and low in vitamins because all they eat is grain). We will be butchering the males in about 10 weeks. We have not quite figured out how many males and females that we have.  Females will start laying eggs on their own at about 5 months (So ours will start around October). We are excited for this new adventure! Our garden is huge so we are working at weeding it. :( We have been not-so-blessed with thousands of thistles (aka pricker bushes). Needless to say, our hands are FULL!