This week, we got our first second egg! The brown/red chicken finally started laying, and none-too-soon 🙂 This family of four (plus 3 extended family in the Joelton Woods) all love eggs, so our roughly 1 a day since we brought the ladies home has been tough.
I know, I know – we aren’t officially even supposed to HAVE chickens (according to the “original plan”) until the week of 9/16, so yes, we are grateful to have ANY eggs at all. But still. Once you start getting a “home grown” egg, it’s hard to eat the “boughten” ones 🙂
Atlas has continued to grow in the past week (surprise!). Hard to believe he’ll be 3 months old Tuesday! We learned this week that it is important to get down to visit him and give him some attention several times during the day. Otherwise, his puppiness gets bored and wants to play with the chickens. This, of course, can’t be tolerated. I expect that over the next few months, his guardian instincts will start kicking up a notch. We’ll definitely be keeping the 4-week old chicks in a small pen with only supervised free time until they’re bigger and all parties are used to one another.
Ah, the joys and challenges of life at Crack of Dawn Farms. Wouldn’t trade it for anything! Here is a little album of some more pics around the farm over the past week.
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- I think Ryan likes the dog house as much as (or more than) Atlas.
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- An aerial shot from my deck of the ladies hanging out in the shade of the coop.
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- Atlas hanging out in the shade of the coop.
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- Pretty clean for a white fuzzball after several stormy days. He’s smart enough to hang out under the coop for the most part.
