Karen And Randy

First day of school: 1st and 2nd grade

Thought I would share some photos from the first day of school this year:)

To The Dells!

Nothing like red Kool-Aid tongues to start the trip off right!

The chickens have finally started laying. Well, Red and Camille have anyways. In the last 3 days they have laid 5 eggs total. It's very exciting. Peep-peep should start laying any time and the 3 younger hens should follow in a month or so. Here are a couple pics of the first two eggs, they were delicious!

Kleinmans and their peeps

They do this all on their own...

They love their chickens!

I hold Peep-Peep.

Needless to say Jack has gotten quite comfortable with his chicken.

Completing the flock...

Four days after we got our first 3 chicks, Lady Gaga the Amerecauna died. She was not healthy from the get go and we were hoping she would pull through, but for some reason we were never able to get her to eat. So today we picked up the last two chicks, with a flock now totaling 6 hens. We received Lucille, a Golden Laced Wyandotte and Lady Gaga, the encore, our Amerecauna. I'd say our chicken days are off to a pretty good start with some pretty great girls...at least we hope they're all girls:)

Lady Gaga...the encore, our Amerecauna.

Lucille, our Golden Laced Wyandotte.

The latest additions, Snow, Lucille, and Lady Gaga.

The teenagers checking out their baby sisters:)

Maddy and Grace love their Chickens, it has been such a blast! Can't wait till August when we can start collecting eggs.

Meet Snow, our Columbian Wyandotte.

Gracie would tell you that today is the BEST DAY EVER! Why, because she finally got her chick. She has waited so patiently and was so excited when we arrived at the farm store today and found that they had just one Columbian Wyandotte left. Whew, that was close. They were suppose to get this particular breed in this coming Friday and then I found out yesterday that they received them last week and that they were almost gone. Tomorrow we will be getting our Golden Laced Wyandotte and our Americauna...Lady Gaga, the encore:)

Snowy, is what Gracie says we should call her, you know, since she's a baby chick. Then when she is all grown we can call her Snow.

Here you can see the size difference, Camille is 3 weeks older than Snow.

Grace will be a good little mother hen:)

Chick- $4.95...That Smile- priceless.

Chich Chick Chick Chick Chicken!

The chicks are here! Well 4 of the 6 are any ways. The last two will be here later this month. Maddy chose a Rhode Island Red and named her Red. Gracie chose a Columbian Wyandotte, that she is naming Snow. Snow will not be here for another 2 weeks but Gracie is having fun with what we have now:) Randy and I selected the other 4 breeds. I chose a Buff Orpington, that I named Camille and a Dark Brahma, that Jack named Peep Peep. Randy chose an Ameracuana that he named Lady Gaga, and a Golden Laced Wyandotte that will be coming soon and will be named Lucille.

Not too long after putting them in their first box we realized that there was no way we were going to be able to have them in a box where we could not see them, so i went and found a clear tub and got it all set up and transferred the chicks where they could stay warm with perfect viewing!

Getting the chicks in their brooder box.

All 4 girls checking out their brooder box. Red is tired and already napping. It is so funny how they get tired and sleep for 5 mins and then they are up and running around and then back to napping in no time.