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We got our first official farm animal! Chickens! We brought them home on Friday afternoon just before 2 full days of rain. We've been having fun checking on them and watching them during the breaks in the storms. They have been fun to watch and learn from.

All of them have been pretty nice and gentle with us. Big Daddy Rooster is the exception. He really hasn't shown an interest in us which as far as I'm concerned is OK. He's a little bit intimidating. He's huge and when he puffs up his feathers to shake them out he's even bigger. Not sure how we will ever wrangle him up again but we will just have to learn. We got their nests filled with some cozy pine chips for the time being. We are still figuring out the best and cheapest product to use for their nests. We have their food mixture all made up and a nice feeder and water container. We are working on where to house the food and water permanently without getting them pooped on all the time. We might end up putting a small fenced yard for them up with a door to let them in and out as we want and then we will be able to put their food away from where they like to sleep. But it's a learning process.

The best part of having these lovely chickens is the beautiful eggs that they produce for us. So far they've given us 2 eggs a day. It's going to take a few days to get all the girls laying again. It was quite a traumatic move for them. But we are excited to be getting a few eggs a day. Since I'm the one that is caring for the chickens and feeding them and cleaning the coop I'm the lucky one that gets to enjoy these yummy yummy eggs! And let me tell you they are so much more delicious than the store bought eggs!

We will have plenty more adventures in the near future as we haven't let them out of the coop yet so hopefully they won't fly away as soon as we do. And then there is the issue of meeting the dogs. That could be interesting! Come back for what seem like some fun future chicken stories!