The Joy of Homemaking

Posted by Jenni on January 2nd, 2008 in Just for Fun!

I brought my banty’s eggs out today to do some modeling! We are very proud to announce the arrival of our chicken’s very first eggs. All the blood, sweat, and tears are finally paying off. Here they are, aren’t they beautiful?! The funny thing is that they are about half the size of a large egg you can buy in the stores.

For those of you who don’t know the story behind our chickens, they are new to the Burns household. Most of them are only about 4 months old and are not laying eggs yet. This past summer we acquired a two-day-old chick from our neighbors, this little chick sent us on a long (much longer than I expected) journey of building a chicken coop, and chicken yard for our “chicken” who turned out to be a rooster! Well, by the time we discovered he “Snoopy” was a rooster, we had acquired five more hens and so now we are all set. The two banties that were given to us were a little older and the other day they started laying eggs! We were so excited, I just had to take a picture and show them off. This has definitely been an adventure, the kids love having chickens. Our oldest daughter who is almost two, whenever she hears Snoopy crowing she says excitedly, “Spoapy!!”

And aren’t the plates just adorable, those were a Christmas gift from my mother-in-law. She thought we would like them and she was right :) Thanks mom!