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.