Meet Snow White

This is Snow White, our first to lay. She is a mid day layer, and until yesterday wasn't using the nesting box. I placed her in the box during a cuddle session, rubbed her back, and made sure she felt the fake egg up against her chest.


The next day she laid in the right spot. Now to test if she will return to the box while free range. When we made the choice to raise chickens for eggs I made sure we got somewhat friendly, reliable NONE white egg layers. I wanted my children to learn there was more to it than the cartoon of white eggs that we bought while on sale. I also wanted to have fun and see all the differences there are.


This is a carton of large eggs, and Snow Whites are medium sized.


And this is dinner, or lunch, or breakfast.

Pond

The pond is now coated. There is still a lot to be done, but within 30 days we will have it completed, with my babies swimming in more room than they know what to do with.

WE HAVE EGGS!

WAY earlier than planned but OMG!

We went to put the gals away for the night, only to turn the corner and find an EGG! Turn around and in the pen is another! We are about 2 months ahead of schedule so we never got around to putting nesting boxes in!

So after a mass egg hunt, we placed the boxes, with marble eggs for decoys, and we can only hope that they start to use them.

Tomorrow we will partake in real eggs!

Chicken Farmers

Bougainvillea collection

In the pool at 8:30 AM