We got about 6 inches of snow of the forecast of 12 inches. How did the chickens like it? Not at all. Some of them would not come out of the chicken house. Some flew up to the driveway so they would not step in the snow much. The drive was clear, well mostly. It is cute seeing their tracks in the snow, man they have big feet!

We have 1 rooster left out of our 6 Bantam chickens we had. They all got eaten by predators. We had those chickens from the Spring of 2007. I miss them.

Now we have 6 new chickens that were born in the middle of June of 2008 and they are 2 of each of these: Austrolarps the black chickens, Rhode Island Reds the brown chickens, and White Plymouth Rock the white chickens. We got those from the Hatchery in Hobart. They are all females. Thank goodness.

Then we have 6 chickens that were born at the end of July 2008 and we got those from my pet chicken. http://www.mypetchicken.com/ and they are the Easter Eggers chickens, not true Aracaunas. I guess the mutts of the chicken world. Mike my hubby said 6 chickens were enough but I had to have my colored eggs I so wanted.

We thought we had 6 females till two days ago we heard a muffled hoarse crowing coming from the chicken house as Mike was leaving for work. I said what is wrong with the rooster? He said that is not *THE ROOSTER* it is a new rooster, looks like you don't have all females Nancy, I wonder which one it is?

Well I found out later when I went into the chicken house, it is one of the Easter Eggers. The prettiest one, with white feathers falling on black feathers that look like he has his hair well feathers frosted! And he has brown lightly on his wings that is oh so pretty! She, well he had been the fighter of the bunch, standing up to the meaner older by 6 weeks chickens. So now the mystery is solved.

I got my first egg 1 week ago, well there were 3 eggs in the nesting box when we came home from Mayo clinic. I brought them in to show everyone and they were weird in size, one very small, one small and one medium size. All brown like we thought.

I have been waiting and watching and have not found out who laid them, my guess is 1 of the brown or black chickens. I have been getting an egg every other day since then. I was hoping by now to have an egg a day from the 6 chickens born in June. I know they need many hours of daylight and I have been trying to do that, turning the light on and leaving it on till well past 8pm. SO they would get about 13 hours of light. I am looking forward to baking with those eggs!