Ouch?

I collect eggs everyday from the coop.

Sometimes there is a
surprise waiting for me. Most days I get beautiful, fresh, brown eggs from my happy, free ranging hens.

But.....one of them doesn't lay everyday.

I've often thought of dabbing their heads with some paint or some kind of marker when I see them setting in the nest boxes. Then, after a few days, one of them would end up without a mark. I could cull that hen because she's not keeping up with production.

I think she knows what I'm thinking. Look at what she left me this morning. Ouch!

The white egg is a Grade A Large from the grocery store, the brown eggs are from my girls.

I should just keep her shouldn't I?

Hey! I wanted that!

Whatcha got? I want some!

Around here everyone has to get along.









With two horses, two cows, four dogs, a cat and 30 some chickens it's a must.

Tag, the dog, seems to like the chickens well enough and obviously, the chickens aren't too afraid of her, even though she delights in chasing them every chance she gets.

She tried chasing the horses, but changed her mind. She said "Horse feet give me a headache!"

Chicken Dinner

Which one would you choose? Can you believe that 8 short weeks ago, these white chickens were the same size as the yellow chicks?



These yellow Buff Orpington pullets will take 20 weeks to reach maturity and start laying their first eggs. Meanwhile, I could raise two and a half batches of the white Cornish Cross from chick to freezer. Isn't there something wrong about that? No other breed of chicken will go from chick to freezer in such a short amount of time. These birds have been bred to get fat and grow large in the shortest amount of time. This is what you're eating when you pick up chicken at the grocery store. I just grow my own at home.

This is also "Fast Food". Not the Kentucky Fried Chicken kind, but the homegrown kind.

I Got Me a Plow!

Farmer Carl says........

My better half and I wuz shoppin fer a real farm plow fer our traktor what we got. We is gonna put in a big garden so's we kin have lots of vegetubuls and stuff from our own land. We wuz talkin and cided that a plow fer the traktor would be a good vestment. So last night we drove to a place and paid cash money fer one. Now we gots ta plow the garden so's I kin git er planted.

You city slikkers is missin out on the good life.

I loves farmin.