No better friend!

Our good friend is here for the second day digging with my hubby in our back yard and beyound trouble shooting our septic. We have had issues since we bought our place and it was..ahem..not pleasant!  I am telling you these poor guys are not having fun. They believe they have "unearthed" the issues and are putting a temporary fix in until we can get a backhoe to dig a new trench for our lines.

The Molt is on..

Well it isn't pretty around here! The new chickens appear to be molting. Feathers abound. Sigh..must be why production dropped off..here's those lemons I promised!

Beauty is in the eye..

Beautiful home grown lemons and a Serama frizzle who I suspect will become a rooster!

On Strike!

Today we had rain and high gusty winds. Skies stayed dark and it was stormy for most of it. We got a grand total of 6 eggs! What a disapointment. Obviously I need to get busy and install some lights in the coops! Let me tell you...6 eggs hurts after what I have been getting.  But on a happy note, we are up to 7 Serama chickys! I am so proud of my broody girls. Three tiny hens..Peanut, Juliet and Ivory. Sharing the duties and hatching some sweet babies!  My silver lining. Weather supposed to breakup and be sunny and warm again by Thursday...and not a moment to soon! Egg orders await.

The Golden Girls (and Guys)

So our Golden Girls are happily installed. Tomorrow will mark one week here and we will give them an hour of free range before dark. We will extend the 'ranging' time daily until we are sure they all know where home is. I delivered six dozen today and have my first standing order for a weekly dozen! Starting to feel a little like a farmer. Found a duck egg and thought I'd snap a pic so you could compare. I have four duck eggs in the incubator and hopefully next week we will get Ducky's!

Forward Motion

As we move forward in our adventure towards self sufficiency/self sustainable life, we have made another stride! I have opened a farm page on Facebook. Hoping it will generate some business interests. Currently I am offering fresh eggs, chicks (Serama and Golden sex link) and ducklings soon I hope. Hoping to expand into herbs in the spring. I am currently working two part time jobs and would love to cut that down to one!

Eggactly!

We got up bright and early and headed over two little towns away to do some chicken 'wrangling'! All went well and I followed hubby home and we installed our Golden Girls with their 4 Manly Men Roosters. They must like it here at Seven Pines....
We had over a dozen by 10 am. Can't wait to see what we have later in the afternoon. Tonight will be working on our labels for egg cartons. More pics later!