Garden and Chicks Update...

The Gardens are in full swing...

Some Jalapenos and Tomatoes are growing too...

The Chickens are Growing!!

These little ones are the Egyptian Fayoumi chicks. They're about a month old and are starting to change from their original brown to their new silver, black and white.

These are the Cochins running around in the back yard...

Eli has a different kind of relationship with these birds...

they follow him around like he's their mother.

They like to hang out in the gardens eating the ants and other assorted pests.

Chicks...

These are our new chickens...I love them. They're beautiful. We got 6 of them, 3 of each kind.


Cochins...2 Hens and a Rooster. They're gorgeous. They have feathers one their feet. To give you an idea of how big these birds get...When you go a restaurant and get a piece of chicken (or don't if you don't swing that way) it comes from a bird that weighs about 2-3 pounds. These birds will get to be about 10-12 pounds. They also make great pets as they are very docile.

These ones are called Egyptian Feyoumi. They're crow at 4 weeks and start laying eggs at 4 months. However the downfall of these chicks is that they're soo skiddish. They're still pretty little. Just over 3 weeks old.

We'll have eggs in a few months. I'm excited. They do a really good job of taking care of the bugs in the garden. We let them run around in the lawn and graze as they like.