Good luck on your interview Sarah! I'm sure you'll impress them!
I lockdown 38 dipped eggs today! They are due on Sunday. Please pray that they hatch clean of Mycoplasma gallisepticum!
Got my fingers crossed for you Daron! Let us know how it goes. 
Well I had a fun morning with a friend who brought her friend and three grandchildren to see the chickens. She said they were so excited to come and had been talking about seeing the chickens all week. I got out early and cleaned the coop but left the eggs in the nest boxes so the kids could "find" them. Zoe reached in and picked up an egg and her eyes got as round as saucers. "It's still warm!!" she said. Even Grandma got a kick out of that and had to feel it. They noticed how each egg shell had a different texture; some are smooth, some are porous, some are grainy or wrinkled. I was amazed at the things they noticed and the good questions they asked. They also could not believe that eggs came in other colors besides white. I gave them each a hotdog bun to feed the chickens and they got the biggest kick out of that. I was careful to keep myself between them an Joe since he can get pretty aggressive. He behaved himself like a gentleman though and ate the buns they offered and then herded the hens out to the woods. They asked why my coop was named Egg Song Inn so I explained about the egg song and the little girls just loved the thought of each hen singing as she laid her egg. Nichole wanted to know why some of the hens had bare backs. I said "well, because the boy chickens or roosters jump up on their backs and scratch them with their toenails sometimes." I figured I'd leave it at that and hope they didn't want details. Little Mikey said "Yeah, when my Daddy gives me a piggy-back ride I scratch him with my toes too!" While we were standing in front of the coop one of the girls noticed that there are hundreds of little colored glass beads in the cracks between the cement slabs that I made the coop walkway with. They started picking them up and ended up with lots of little souviners to take home with them, including pretty feathers. The kids took their found eggs back to the house to take home as well as a dozen their Grandma bought and my friend took a dozen. One of the little girls named her blue egg Petunia and very carefully wrote it's name on the shell. When we came in the house I got Merlin, my macaw out to meet them, but they were way more impressed with the chickens. The kids were very well behaved and asked if they could come back every year to visit. Grandma said it was a wonderful adventure for them and took lots of pictures. I'm not around kids much and had forgotten how much fun it is to watch them explore and experience new things. It was a nice visit.
"Dear Father hear and bless thy beasts and singing birds and guard with tenderness small things that have no words."
3 Chinese Cresteds, 3 cats, 1 Severe Macaw, Ameracanas/Easter Eggers, ISA Browns, Barred Rocks, French Black Copper Marans, Barnyard Mutts
"Dear Father hear and bless thy beasts and singing birds and guard with tenderness small things that have no words."
3 Chinese Cresteds, 3 cats, 1 Severe Macaw, Ameracanas/Easter Eggers, ISA Browns, Barred Rocks, French Black Copper Marans, Barnyard Mutts
That's so funny!
I may have gotten the little de'uncles i wanted! I stopped up to TSC and they had gotten a few more feather-feet, and these ones looked much paler then the other ones....... crossing fingers, but even if they are mille's i still think i need some mercy chicks for little rose tonight. It would make me very happy to see her eating well again.... As much as i want my blue eggs hatched, it can wait another year, May give her incentive to hatch again!
