Chicks + Time = Eggs

We really know it's Spring around the farm when the local farm store gets the newborn chicks in. Our usual order is for ten but this year we are adding to the brood. As of today we have fourteen chicks in the nursery. We will introduce the chicks to their adult chicken family in about sixteen weeks, when they are old enough to hold their own against the older jealous chickens. There are some characteristics that chickens possess that make them behave like mammals.

Aren't they cute! I couldn't resist playing with them in the house.

Peeps! Real Peeps!

In time our littlest chicks will begin laying eggs.

The adult chickens have been hard at work producing a fine mass of eggs!

When the sun shines...the chickens lay!
We love the array of egg colors from white, to brown and even blue green!

More and more people are choosing to raise a few chickens. In most cities, there is a limit to how many chickens a family can have. Our town allows three but no Roosters!

Three chickens can keep a family in eggs, one each a day, for quite some time.

Free garden fertilizer is another side advantage to keeping chickens!

Last years' post about our chicks is right here!

Today

It's Spring!

Limbs entwine,

light grows strong,

take a moment,

and watch them climb!

"Flower"

It is a good day..... in the woods....
.............a place to return and see the season unfold. There is much to explore, find and uncover. It is a good day!