Chicks!!

We just ordered new baby chicks for this year! Yay! Red Sex Link hens, I think we're getting 4 of them. They will look like this >>> cute, huh?

oh, we've had chickens before. lol ~ lots of them. That is what we started off with here. I couldn't wait to have my own eggs. We enjoyed the eggs so much, we thought how nice it would be to have meat birds too! Fresh farm raised chicken! mmmmm .... so we got meat birds....ad then we got more, because some friends of ours had about 48 they wanted us to take...... well...we took them, and it was a mistake. Sooo many chickens! And almost all of them had to go to the freezer.

So we did a lot of processing of chickens that year.

I wont do that again.

Not because it was disgusting or hard to kill a living creature....though it is, .... but it was hard work, smelly, and a lot of chickens to clean up after each day.

So, we are just getting a few egg layers this year again and staying small....

enjoying my farm fresh eggs again.

And yes, if you ask if there is a difference....there is. For most, these eggs dont have to be dipped in bleach. The eggs are darker, richer, and have a harder shell. They dont always seem as large in size, but you get so many, that doesn't really matter.

I can be asured that when I compare one of my own chicken eggs to a store bought egg, mine are better for us in the long run. You can just tell.

And they taste better too.

<<< This is what they look like after almost 2 months or so. When they grow up, they look almost identical to a rhode island red hen. ...Which are my favorite chickens..... but these sex links are supposed to be real good layers. :)