Our first eggs!!!

well here they are.....our first eggs!! we are very excited 1) because we have our own eggs 2) we found them in the nest boxes! the blue one is from josh's chick, she's an easter egger (our only one), the other, i think, is from one of the rhode island reds. they are little now, but that's the way the girls start out!

chicken coop upgrade

the nesting boxes have been added to the coop. we don't have any nesting material yet, but at least they're in. soon the girls should be laying and fresh eggs will be ours. the rooster has been harassing them alot lately, so maybe we'll have chicks =) this is the inside of the coop, the roost where the chickens sleep.

i raked the chicken yard. got all the yuckus into a pile to go to the bonfire pit. the chickens went right in and spread that stuff all over the minute i walked away......

naughty naughty chickens.

so tomorrow i will be out there again to rake up. i plan on moving a little faster this time.

here is the chicken coop before it was painted. we got it free off of craig's list, of courrse it was in holland, which is quite a drive from here. but it was cheaper than buying a new one. lol

ok here we go....

well we are going to try out this blog thing. we are trying to live as simply as possible and this will be the place to keep track of our adventures. i will probably be the main (if not only) writer to this blog. i'm leslilli, i have been married for 7 years to my hubby and we have 2 boys, bubby (4years) and jelly bean (11.5 months). we also have 2 dogs, brutus (7, a pug) and vera (3 months, border collie). we also have a flock of naughty chickens known as "the girls". this is the first year for us in our red door home, we have a veggie garden, it's full of weeds but i am still getting tons of veggies out of it. next year the plans are for a much bigger garden, i didn't seem to make it big enough to can things too. good thing we have lots of goods farmers markets in the area. i have been making lots of jam, bubby, jelly and i have been going to u-picks for strawberries , red raspberries, and blueberries. at the end of the week it will be black raspberries hopefully.....mmmmm homemade jam.