Denby wanted to get on the blog.

Denby wanted to get on the blog so I took this picture of him with me and Ethan. He and Ethan looked good even if I don't. 

Biggest Egg Ever

This egg on the left is the biggest one we have ever had. It came from a Barred Rock. The Barred Rock have been giving us smaller eggs but now they are getting as big as the Red Star's eggs. 

We love the Izatt's

We love the Izatt's and their kids love to come over and visit the chickens. 

I love going in the backyard, they always run to greet me.

They still love to eat grass from our hands too. 

Ethan found a snake in the road down the street.

Ethan found a snake in the road down the street. We are getting away from the chicken theme of the blog but it reminds me of a story I heard from a man from Africa. At lunch one day, someone introduced me to a colleague from Africa and said that he had been a chicken farmer. He told me that he raised thousands of chickens for the eggs and meat and that is how he was able to go on a mission. He told me he once had a problem with Boa Constrictor snakes eating his eggs. He said he observed that the would gobble up as many eggs as they could hold then they would stretch themselves between two trees to break the eggs inside. He had the clever inspiration to set out boiled eggs for the snakes and when he did he soon found dead snakes, their bellys full of unbroken eggs. They were unable to break the eggs and digest them. He was featured in the national agriculture magazine. That is the connection between snakes and chickens.