Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

We have a house full of people for this Thanksgiving holiday. Relatives came up from Florida and our house is full. The weather was in the 30's and 40's this morning but it warmed up to the 50's and the breeze died down. We made a really good dinner and ate outside. My brother-in-law wanted to have a real Thanksgiving outdoors just like the Pilgrims did. I think we got the correct weather down here. We had 3 portable heaters outside in our pavilion so we could eat comfortably. It was a great day! Good food! Good people! New friends were made!

Our little nephew wanted to collect chicken eggs from our hens. Our hens aren't laying and they haven't been laying for a long while. We didn't have the heart to let him come back empty-handed so we planted a few for him. He was so ecstatic to get the eggs. It was too cute to watch him. He's the kind of kid that talks in exclamation points. "I got four eggs in one nest!"

I  hope all of you had a really great day, too!

Take care.

Maybe Her Last Egg?

I've had chickens for about 9 years. I used to have indoor birds and that got too messy for me. Besides, I became WAY too attached to them and I mourned their passing as if it was my favorite dog or person. Not good for a grown-up. Am I? Hmmm...I'll have to think about that one.

Anyhow, I bought a few chickens to see if I could raise them. Yep. I could, did and do! My one hen and roo are the last ones from my original batch of chickens. You heard right...nine plus years old and still hanging in there. Boy acts like the old man he is. He takes naps during the day. White Hen still looks very young and gets around well.

The pic above is a couple of my eggs to show their color. This is the best I could do with a flash at 6 am today. On the left is a white egg, probably from my leghorn hen, which I bought from mail order. The middle one is green (looks brownish) and is from Peepy, an Auraucana mix and first chicken I raised from an egg. Boy was her daddy and Sweetie was her mom. The blue egg on the right is from White Hen, who is also an Auraucana mix, which I bought. All of these eggs are very large. White Hen was walking funny the other day and I see why. Because she is very old, I think it takes her two days to move the egg along the canal before she can lay. Also, this egg looked like she ate sand and passed it. Must've hurt a bit because it is very rough on the outside. This may be her last egg.

I really hope she starts thinking about retirement. If I was her, I would! LOL!