In April, we (spontaneously) decided to get some chickens. The girls love Mimi’s chickens. One Sunday afternoon, we went and bought 5 hens and 1 rooster. The next week, Layton’s chicken “Jasmine” died. The next month something caught one hen and the next month Reece (kind of) killed Dave’s rooster. After all the fatalities, we were  down to 3 hens. In July, we decided to get more and to build a bigger coop. Once we finally got the coop built, we bought 6 more hens and 1 rooster, giving us 10 chickens total! We have 3 grown hens now and have been getting 1 egg a day but yesterday we got 2!! (big day in Layton’s world!!!) Now the girls won’t have to fight over getting that 1 egg in the afternoons. Hopefully soon, we will need a basket to go out and gather eggs!!! J

 

 

 

 

 

 

Layton LOVES the chickens, Lydia likes them but not near as much as her sister. The picture below is so pitiful. The 2^nd morning after we got the other chickens, Lydia wanted to go out and see if there were any eggs. Layton heard her and went running out after her. Lydia came to the door with an egg, poor Layton was SOOOOOOOO upset that she didn’t get it. I don’t know how they didn’t break it getting back to the house!