Sunday, September 15, 2013

New Arrivals and All Grown Up...


The chickens are enjoying their outside pen and the garden scraps!  Our garden has produced an enormous amount of zucchini.  The chickens love zucchini!  I have frozen 2c. Ziplocks of zucchini so I can make some delicous zucchini bread during the winter months.  My grandmother's recipe is my favorite.  I will share it with you all soon.  My friend Sylvia says she has a great recipe for zucchini cake.  I can't wait for her to share that with me!  Our chickens in the above picture are getting huge.  We now let them free range for a couple of hours each night.  They love it!!  They actually wait at the door for us to come and let them out.  They know what time we get home or they hear us and they wait to be set free!  We have our eyes out for coyotes though.  Entire flocks can be wiped out.  We love our chickens, so we are keeping a close eye on them.  Below is a picture of our new arrivals.  They are so sweet and funny!  They spook easily and tap, tap, tap around their pen.  We have 51 of our older chickens, which should be laying eggs any day, and we have 22 new ones.  Of the new chicks three of them are turkens.  My son wanted them.  They have the funniest looking necks.  I will try to get closer pics when they are a little bigger and less spooked.  It is so much fun getting chickens in the mail, but I think we are done for now.  I will post pictures soon of them free ranging.  They are so beautiful and fun to watch!  How can you not love chickens?


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