The chickens spend most afternoons out of the coop, wandering around the yard with the dogs. They eat bugs out of our compost, chase each other around, and they've even learned how to walk up the back porch stairs. Lucy discovered the dog house and decided it was a great place to build a nest and lay a little egg.
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| Lucy in her dog house nest! |
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| Lucy came to get her food off of the back deck. Cheeky little bird! |
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| Pip helping Amelia clean up the food Lucy dropped. |
The biggest news of all is that Nappy laid her first egg yesterday! At first we thought it was Lucy who wasn't laying. Then we found her in the dog house having just laid an egg. Now we know for sure that Nappy hasn't been laying, because the 4th egg was soooo tiny compared to the others. Nappy is a Silkie, which is a bantam variety. Bantams are smaller than standard chickens (hence her name, which is short for Napoleon) and thus lay much smaller eggs.
And in other news, the vegetable garden is growing! We were a little late in planting the spring plants, so we'll have to see how they do. It was almost 90 degrees yesterday, so hopefully it's not too hot for all the tiny plants. Pretty soon we'll be harvesting all our spring goodies.
What can I say? Life is good here on our little backyard farm.
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