Gma is Eggs-sitting this week!

Lets wish her luck and happy birding. She has a new charge named Louie. He's my Christmas present from Nik this year. He's big. He's white. And he's on a diet, so his legs don't break under all his weight.
The new girls are doing great and are laying productively. Chic lays a tiny one occasionally. Red is quarantined cause he's so big I'm afraid he'll hurt those little girls. And Chic runs away from him and hides in fear for her life. Ken is the king of his domain of course.

Awww . . . : (

Chic got off her eggs today and went with the other ladies to scratch around in the neighbors yard. I canceled the event from my calendar. I collected six cold eggs out of the nest. I'm a little sad that she's not sitting on any eggs, but glad that she's not sitting because its cold out.

Day One -

Chick has two eggs beneath her. One could be hers, but the other is definitely one of the other girls' eggs. I Gathered two eggs today but I didn't pay attention to whose they were. Now Chick has gone broody! I have circled December 6 as the 21 day mark for gestation. Hope things go better this time. All the eggs I've gathered in the past few weeks. Each one about the size if a Tablespoon.

Four in One

Wow! My first collection of four eggs all in one day. I think one girl is an early layer. And the other three lay later in the day, but deliver by 2:00pm. Yahoo!

New egg in town!

One of the new girls has started laying today! One regular egg from Mona & Jack's girls, one of Chics eggs, and the new egg in town. So tiny.

More than eggs...

The big news is: Chic is laying eggs again after the sad loss of her four lil chics.

Ken is ...well Ken. And we have 4 more chickens in our backyard crew. Jaydin has named them Bella, Chelsey, Heather & Lenny. I think the girls are Lacey Wyendots? (spelling?) They are beautiful little birds. Lenny is orange.

After only a week and some issues from moving next door ... they went "home" at nite and sat on the porch rail ... Today they seem to be settling in as a flock. Nae and I clipped some wings yesterday so they can't fly over the fences anymore.

I'm so pretty

Ken was in a feisty mood this morning when he saw the bright pink plumage of my slippers. So much so, I couldnt walk across the yard without challenge.

Three Egg Thursday - Hooray!

Checked the nest one last time with defeat in my heart only to find three beauties waiting to be plucked from the nest. The only difference is that I turned off the heat lamp 3 days ago. Coincidence? Hmmm. . .