A Little About Our Chickens by Quentin

After the chicks we bought last fall were big enough we moved them to the barn.  Egg production is now starting to come.  Just recently we received a pale olive green egg and a light brown egg with walnut brown specks up and down it.

Green eggs still have the same fresh flavor, the shell is just a different color.  This breed of chicken, the Araucana from Chile, is know for its colorful eggs.

We keep some of our favorite chickens at our house instead of the barn.  Recently my bothers and I built our New Hampshire Red, Nugget, a "broody-box".  We are trying to get her to hatch eggs so then we will have chicks!   But don't worry no baby chicks will pop out of the eggs you buy, we promise!

In May we are expecting 15 Red Star pullets to add to our Chicken Scratch flock.  They will lay large brown eggs.

Speaking of eggs, you can save money by buying eggs from us!  Sometimes a dozen eggs in the store can be $3.09 or more.  Our eggs are only $3.00.  The average fresh egg seller charges $4.00.
Also, for better egg production, we let our chickens free-range.   From the things they find and eat plus the feed we buy for them, they get enough vitamins and calcium to lay good eggs.

Young Roosters FREE To a Good Home! by Quentin

They are about 6 months old.  Beautiful Araucana roosters of magnificent color are being given away to whomever would like one.  Their names are Lloyd, George, Clarence and Elmer.  They can already crow (except Clarence, he was attacked by a opossum and we think it set him back a bit).

Lloyd is red with a green tail.
George is white with a green black and brown on his back and a green tail.
Clarence is blue/gray with a yellow and green tail (he is a cuckoo maran not an araucana).
Elmer is red, green and black with a green tail.

If you are interested contact Mom & Dad, because they will be butchered this weekend!!!!!  YIKES!

Welcome To Chicken Scratch!!

My name is Emily.  I am the mother of these 4 awesome entrepreneurs.   I will serve as moderator of this blog,  the content (with the exception of this post) will be done completely by the kids.   Our main author of written content will be Quentin (11yo).  Video content will generally be from Walker (8yo) and Everett (5yo) and Maisie (3yo) will be sprinkled in and around as well.

The kids have been raising chickens and selling eggs for a couple of years and they have decided to expand their business.  We help them along, but really they do most of the work and make most of the decisions.  We are very proud of them and we hope you enjoy our little experiment.