New Additions to Our Family...

Here is the part two post to Anyone want to guess what I have been up to the last 3 days?

So after deciding our family was not complete without chickens in the backyard, the kids and I set forth to build a chicken coop.  Pinterest was a huge help in deciding on a design and who knew there were so many chicken blogs and websites.  Love the fact that my boys are getting older and stronger to help with heavy lifting

Being a little apprehensive about the whole chicken thing (I am a total city girl, with a slight phobia of birds) the kids and I thought that 3 pullets would be a good choice to start with. We started construction the Thursday before Mother's Day and were at the feed store on Mother's Day picking out our new backyard inhabitants.

I have to say it has been a few weeks and having chickens is really fun! I am convinced now that chickens really aren't the smartest creatures but they definitely are entertaining.  We let them out once a day to cruise the yard looking for bugs and eating weeds. I love the fact that this time supervising them while they frolic has forced me to take a break from my sewing machine and enjoy our backyard.

I am sure there will be more posts on chicken shenanigans to come... could have filmed an episode of Wild Kingdom in our backyard a few weekends back when we had a visit from a Redtail Hawk.  Mr Hawk tried to make off with our smallest chicken but thanks to my quick thinking son and a garden house we were able to rescue little Ming.  Just in case you are wondering... no, people usually don't take chickens to the vet.  :0)

Thanks for reading!
Shawna