the egg story

while i was away from home my sister bought chickens...baby chicks. her granddaughter bought two chicks and her grandson bought to ducklings. mallards. so last weekend her two sons loaded a little chicken house on a trailer and tooled ...well it was probably more like inched down the road to the far end of the property. they were on interstate part of the time---the scary part is the trailer was not licensed(probably the tail lights were not working) and the chicken house was to wide to be legal. no red flags either. but they made it. there are posts dug for the chicken yard. after they get used to their new home the chickens will probably be allowed to run free part of the time. there is a garden just to the right of the chicken house. the flock will help keep down the bugs, but i think they really like tomatoes also. they put up a water tank next to the chicken house. it is about two feet high and about six feet across. it has a chain link enclosure around it now and they take the ducks out to it for a swim. they are so excited to be in the water.

in the small half of the house a barn swallow built a nest using blue and silver ribbons. quite fancy. but since the house moved and she didn't, she will have to build a new nest.

our chickens are going to lay white, blue, brown, and green shelled eggs.