Chickens

No, we don't live on a farm.  Someone asked me that yesterday and my answer was no.  We do live on about 3.5 acres, so there is room to do more than some homeowners. 

We have 10 laying chickens right now, but Ashley's (granddaughter) class is hatching eggs that will become ours next week.  We have 2 black australorps, 1 gold lace wyandotte, 4 silver lace wyandottes and 3 red sex-link chickens.  The red sex-link were given (with a coop) to us by a friend who didn't want chickens over the winter.  The other seven chickens were from a batch of chicks that Brent (brother) ordered last summer.  We lost one chicken last fall to our neighbor's dog and a hawk tried unsuccessfully to grab one a few weeks ago. 

I tried to take a picture to show the difference in the size of the eggs.  The large darker egg is from the sex-link.  They are stronger layers than the other birds.  The other birds win the prize for beauty though.  So we have both - beauty and brawn!