meet our new chicks

I don't even know how to start this one. The Taylors have chickens. Last week, we had a back yard, mostly full of rocks. It did have a very nice back porch that our friends help us build, and a growing garden that our friends helped us build, and a cool fort, that our friends helped us build. Wow. We have some really cool friends.

Then last Saturday, Blake helped our neighbor move his chicken coop from his yard, to our yard. I've been wanting chickens, and the dream was finally coming true. I am excited to get some eggs, and secretly want to be like my menagerie friends down the street. So Sunday, after Church, we went to Blanco to get some chickens. (Thanks to craiglist) So after a couple of hours, a trip to Tractor Supply and lots of hand washing (I'll maybe tell you the story of the chicken people a different time), we had 3 chickens. 1 full grown laying hen and 2-12 week old chicks. Then today, Blake came home with 2 more. Not too sure what they are. The 2 chicks we first got are females, which we want, and we'll just have to wait and see what these 2 others turn out to be. Hopefully they're females too! I don't want roosters. No way Jose.

So, meet the new additions--

The moving of the coop-Thanks Scott!

hmmmm...something we didn't quite think through. The bird dogs, LOVING the birds. Oops. They're doing much better now. (Look @ all the sweet rocks. Aren't they cute?)

My sweet, hard-working husband putting up the second perching limb cause I wasn't sure if they could jump all the way up.

Here's Abbey. (Camron named her) She'll lay blue eggs.

Was hoping for the golden egg, but blue will do.

Here's Diddy Kong & Dixie Kong. (Brandon named Diddy, and renamed Dixie chick to Dixie Kong. Come on Mom.)

Here's one of the nubie's - Jiggly Puff (she/he has a pom pom on the top of it's head)

and here's the other new one - that we're calling turkey. Mainly because we're not fo' sho that it's not a turkey. So, time will tell. But it got a name of turkey because of it.
Blake was taking Brandon out to help put in the two new chicks, and we found our first egg! Way to go Abbey!

See, regular store egg on bottom, Abbey blue(ish) egg on top.




Dixie & Diddy are pretty darn cute together. When they grow up, don't think they'll be as cute. Chickens are pretty ugly. But, they're cute now. They're always together.