Actually Written Sept. 20. 2012

Today we started our second flock of chickens!  So far, we have 2 different colors of Ameraucanas (the yellow one and the middle one) and we have a Welsummer (right).  These breeds should provide us with a nice colorful basket of eggs this Spring.  Ameraucanas lay greenish/blue eggs and the Welsummer should lay dark (almost chocolate) eggs.  On Saturday we will get a few more from a different store in order to have a bigger variety of breeds.  While we loved our last flock of 2 Barred Rock, 2 Buff Orpingtons, 1 Silver Laced Wyndotte and 1 Brown Leghorn, we wanted to try completely different breeds this time. 

Flock #1 retired at 3.5 years old this past weekend.  Their laying had REALLY slowed down to the point that we got one egg every other day, if we were lucky.   

Coby and Chirp

Remi and Tweet

Our neighbor with Kelly