Our double yoker

We have one or two hens that lay double yokers occasionally.  The kids really love it!  They think it is the bees knees to have chickens at all, and when they lay (every day) it is like a treasure just for them! Not just the little ones enjoy it.  Needless to say, we eat a LOT of eggs around here.  Well, and we should!  They are organic (not certifiable, but still), healthy, from our own free ranging hens that we feed all natural feed. AND those gals are loved on!  A lot!  They truly are pets.  As for the chickens, I think they like the kids as much as chickens can like anybody. As for the chickens liking us, they do, as long as we have scratch in our hands!

Better than TV

The black one is the boss (in the pic with A).  The one in front with L is the one that lays the easter eggs.

Our summer in pictures

She is a farm girl at heart!

Chicken Bliss in Full Swing

Well, Chicken Bliss is officially in full swing!  We travelled down to Wewoka (lots farther than we thought) to pick up our chicks last week.  As it happened, an earthquake was going on in Prague; I was driving and kept telling Lance that I was having trouble keeping the van on the road- I just chalked it up to I-40 :)
Then we decided to eat in Shawnee since we were SO close.  And it was a LOT closer to dinner than we had planned.  Like almost 8pm.  That is sort of close to dinner time, just the wrong side of close.  We were going to eat at the Hamburger King, but it was closing, so we had to go somewhere else.  From the screaming that ensued you would think we were torturing some of the kids: Chicken Bliss quickly turned into Chicken Hell in a Handbasket.  But we made it home all in one piece and with full bellies.   Since then it has been quite a chore keeping everyone on task, especially since E killed one chick.  Now everyone is on guard duty. 

They are now getting big enough that we are worried they are going to be able to jump out of the brooder-- Lance is building a lid tonight!

8 days til chickens!

Here are some drawings of the types of chickens we will have in eight (countdown already in full swing) days:

The all black ones are called black Australorps, the golden ones are buff Orpingtons, the black and white one is a barred Plymouth Rock, the reds are Rhode Island Reds, and the multicolored ones are called Ameraucanas.  They are super cool because they lay multi-colored eggs in shades of pink, blue and yellow. 
The kids are on super chicken overload.  I took them to Atwoods the other morning on a "chicken field trip".  I thought they might explode with their chicken delight!  The names that are being bantied about are the funniest thing: fat louie, Asoka, Anikan, and even Sateen.  Yes, we have a bunch of clone wars fans.  And a princess.

W had his first cereal today and did very well; hopefully the rice will help keep his milk down!  He is on the verge of crawling away-- he is army crawling everywhere in just the last few days, and he is on all fours some of the time now!  And if he can't get where he wants to go that way, he just rolls!  Nothing and no one are safe any longer! (can you hear the Star Wars theme song in the background?  I can- I have three or four kiddos humming it at any given time!)