This house is going to the chickens!

Sarah Katherine and I decided to do some landscaping a couple of weeks ago when we had that beautiful weather.  We opened all the windows to freshen up the house and we headed outside. It was a vicious cycle of us laying down the mulch and then the chickens scratching it all out into the yard.  By the time we finished putting down all of the mulch, it looked like a tornado had come through.  I have learned that nothing will stay in the same place when you have chickens, dogs and a little piglet running around the yard.

After a frustrating morning of spreading mulch, we came inside for a snack and some milk.  I handed Sarah Katherine some milk and crackers for her to take in the playroom to watch cartoons while I washed eggs.  She came running back into the kitchen and said, "There's is a chicken in my chair! It's eating my crackers! Get it out mommy".  I thought that she was playing because she is a 2 year old that has a WILD imagination.  As I walk into the playroom, this is what I see:

Sarah Katherine's imagination wasn't running wild but the chicken was inside my house!

Sarah Katherine had lost the fight and abandoned all snacks!

Shortly after me screaming at the chicken, she went right back outside the window that she came in through.  I guess that I will have to put the screen back on that window!  There is never a dull moment here on the farm!

Have you ever heard of a "Pigken"

It is a long story, but needless to say the mother and veterinarian in me took over and I bottle raised two of the piglets from Hamlet's first litter.  Sarah Katherine took the liberty of naming them "Shaggy and Scooby". (She watches a lot of classic cartoons with her daddy)

Well, Shaggy doesn't know that she is a pig!  She follows us around where ever we go on the farm. If we are gone, then she takes right up with the chickens. Most mornings you would find her asleep on our front door step with the dog and occasionally a rooster, but now she eats with the chickens, drinks with the chickens, and sleeps with the chickens.

Here she is drinking out of their waterer and belly up to the chicken feeder with the rest of the chickens.  Yesterday, I found her asleep in the middle of about 5 chickens!

 At night, she climbs right up into the "egg mobile" and sleeps with the chickens.  I will be really amazed if she starts laying eggs!

Eggs, Eggs, and More Eggs

We had battled hawks that were eating our chickens.  Then, the "blizzard of 2011" slowed our egg production down to a couple of eggs a day.....we now have 13 dozen eggs every 6 days!  These are some working girls!

We wash the eggs daily and package them into recycled containers. If you would like some eggs then Click Here 

It is so great to go out to our eggmobile and see the nesting boxes full of eggs!  I do feel like Bubba Gump since we are having scrambled eggs, omelettes, eggs benedict, eggs over easy, eggs sunny side up...you get the point.  A reminder that we are still taking recipes for our Best Egg Recipe Contest that ends this month.  We will post our favorites on our blog and our Grand Champion Recipe will