Had a chat with the ladies today...

Well, it's official, I'm in the bartering game!

We have been getting 4 eggs regularly and yesterday we got five. We bragged to the girls about how great they'd been doing. Made sure they were happy, cool and ready to rock out some more.

It seems they were happy to oblige! Six eggs today! Nicely done, girls!

I couldn't help but put all my eggs in one basket just this once. I brought my friend Heather a dozen eggs today and these are what I have left. A dozen and a half. I need two dozen for bartering purposes, so I may have it tomorrow!!! I could not be more excited!

Our happy ladies have been loving the lawn tractor, they b-line to it as soon as the door opens.

Getting their "Free Range" on.

If you look really hard, you can see Luke at the other end of the tractor. We must have some sweet grass here. Oh, and muscadine grapes rain from the sky, too! (they love those special treats)!

So, it's official, we are now in the barter business - if you are interested in bartering, check out the Bulloch Barter Buddies Facebook Page.

Update on the chickens

Our chickens are thoroughly enjoying their yard tractor (we are too, saves a bunch on food!)

Four eggs a day are awesome! We've had a few double yolkers, too!

It's so hot today. Jr. is laying in the 'breezeway'.

Some of our 'pretties'.

The barred rocks are now as big as the Red and Goldens: Hoping to start getting eggs soon!

Aztec, one of our pretties chickens. She's an Ameraucana (easter egger) - I can't wait for them to start laying. They are the smallest of all our chicks.

Such a pretty picture of diversity! From left to right, Golden, Barred Rock, Americauna, Rhode island Red.

Pretty Americauna's!

Strutting her stuff

Aztec again. :)

I love the Cleopatra look she's got.

What's all the racket?

I went out to check on the chickens this a.m. and most of them met me at the fence.

So I made my way around the pen and opened up the lay boxes to see if there where any eggs in them.

Why, Yes! There was a Chicken in them! haha

I excused myself (haha) and kind of hung around the coop to wait for Mama Golden to get done. I'm glad I did hang out - listen to this racket!




She was soon joined by a Rhode Island Red...I guess to keep her company? Or maybe she was watching to see how it was done?

I keep opening the lay box door to check o the progress. I think you can tell how much she appreciated it. haha

Is there *Finally* an egg under there? (after an hour of waiting & racket!)

Yep! I think maybe tomorrow we could possibly have TWO eggs waiting for us. I think that Red wants to get in some egg laying action!

Egg Sandwiches for lunch. (Too soon?) haha

We've just had an awesome day and after the 2nd egg was gathered this a.m., we decided to commemorate it by eating our favorite mid-day meal, fried eggs sandwiches.

The first two eggs were the honorees. Luke did the honors by cracking them onto the griddle.

Tasty! I can't wait to have dozens more!

Egg Sandwiches for lunch. (Too soon?) haha

We've just had an awesome day and after the 2nd egg was gathered this a.m., we decided to commemorate it by eating our favorite mid-day meal, fried eggs sandwiches.

The first two eggs were the honorees. Luke did the honors by cracking them onto the griddle.

Tasty! I can't wait to have dozens more!

CCCD Chicken Coop Cleaning Day!

Dirty Open Pin - put some watermelon out there to bribe them into one area. Worked pretty well! *note the corn cob leftovers.

Little Bit up on the perch - He hung out with me the whole time. Followed me into every coop I went in to.

Cleaning up the main coop - already got most of it out at this point, but Joey obliged a photo.

Cleanly swept main coop. Aztek checking out the newly clean coop. Check the dirty coop in the background -that's where we head next!

Finally cleaned out the closed in coop. Of course Little Bit was hanging out with me. He'd occasionally growl at me if I swept too close to him, but for the most part, he just wanted to see what I was up to.

Luke helped tidy up the open coop, including snipping some roots out.

Clean coops and fresh watermelon! Oh and there come Little Bit, right on time asking "whatcha doin' now?"

Joey put up the oyster shell feeder. Note the chicken footprints in the freshly swept sand. I thought that was cool.

Chickens wanting to know what Joey was doing over there.

Barred Rocks are at 14 weeks right now - they'll be laying in about 3 more weeks also!

I can't believe this Americana had the watermelon all to herself!

Hard to get a good shot of Little Bit when he's being so camera shy - but I figured he deserved some extra attention since he help us out so much today! :)

2nd Egg - Bigger!

Still only one egg, I wish I could figure out who was laying them! This one's bigger than the one two days ago. I guess the oyster shell is working.