We had a big day today. It was the first day of Spring Break (Monday). We had 11 kids from the neighborhood and beyond come and play at our house, including Noodle, Hopers, Tobi, Tabi, Jeremy, Micah, et al. The kids had a blast playing hide and seek, building a fort in the barn, holding chicks, riding bikes around the yard, playing tag, doing Tinikling (a Philippino dance), and generally eating everything in sight like a plague of locusts.
Meanwhile, Victoria, our only fully adult hen who has been holding out on us laid her first egg!
It's little (she's a Bantam chicken) and blue-green colored (she's an Easter Egger breed) but we couldn't be more excited about it.
And in other news, the chicks are 4 weeks old now. We have moved them to a large dog cage inside the chicken pen. The other chickens don't like the presence of these intruders, so it will be a while before we can let them all freely mingle together.
Here's the role call, with how they looked a month ago when they were born and how they look today:
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| Uno |
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| Smoky |
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| Penny |
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| Nugget |
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| Checkers |
We still don't know who's a boy and who's a girl, but it was too hard to hold off naming them. We tried to pick either/or type names, except Penny, which probably guarantees we'll have a rooster out of that one.
We're praying hard that they'll all be hens, and in 16 more weeks, we'll be cheerfully showing off their first eggs!!
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