Guess What I Got!! | Chickens in the Road

4-2
5:37
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Woo hoo!!!! First eggs from your own chickens!!

…and I am seriously jealous!

Ann from Montana - Reply to this comment

4-2
5:46
am

Eggs !!! Who will be the first to crack them and cook’em?

Fresh eggs are the best!

Patricia

Patricia Herman - Reply to this comment

4-2
6:29
am

I bet those ARE your chickens… How fun! My family just got our first batch of chickens ever. 9 of them, and we are enjoying watching them grow. Have you had chickens before? Ive been told that if I want to help keep the chickens safe from critters at night, I should get a goose or two to go with them.

sulli - Reply to this comment

4-2
7:23
am

So who gets to ’set’ on them – Princess? LOL What kind of incubator do you have? I usually set about 30 eggs every spring. The humidity level and the constant temp are important for getting nice chicks. One year the humidity got to low and I had a lower hatch rate, plus deformed legs…. :wall: If you have questions about it or somthing, email me and I can send you some info from my chicky book…. What kind of chickens did you get?

Heidi - Reply to this comment

4-2
7:24
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Ann, I don’t have my own chickens…..yet!!

Suzanne McMinn - Reply to this comment

4-2
7:28
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We always had chickens when I was a child growing up on the farm. It was my job to collect the eggs. I hated that job. I was afraid I’d reach in and get a snake.

Mother always had a couple of hens to set. She’d mark the eggs with a pencil and always put an old white doorknob in the nest. That way if a snake got in, and swallowed the doorknob, he couldn’t get out, and she’d kill it.

I was always afraid of the old setting hens and the rooster.

I think it’d be fun now. You sure help bring back memories.

Shirley - Reply to this comment

4-2
7:32
am

How cool! I can’t wait to see them once they have hatched. Congrats!

Jyl - Reply to this comment

4-2
8:03
am

I guess the question is, which comes first the chicken or the egg? In your case, the egg? Are those for hatching or for eating? Good luck, if hatching. Enjoy, if eating.

Hillbilly2 - Reply to this comment

4-2
8:05
am

Scrambled? Poached? Over-easy? Sunny side up?

Mmmm, fresh eggs!

-Kim :bananadance:

Kim A. - Reply to this comment

4-2
8:09
am

How exciting!!Owning and raising chickens will be a great experience….farm fresh eggs, joy, and a whole new set of stresses whoo hoo Chickens in the Road!!

I love Chickens, I am really excited for you.
I have a leghorn cross rooster which looks very much like your daily photo. He is quite a character. Best of luck with your hatching.

sc - Reply to this comment

4-2
8:22
am

Big woo-hoo! Enjoy your hens. There are few things as much fun or so satisfying as getting your own eggs. I’ve got a few more months before my chicks start to lay. Can’t wait!

Tell us what kind of chickens you got.

Granny Sue - Reply to this comment

4-2
8:52
am

Awesomeness! I long for the day when I am able to have some chickens and my own fresh eggs!

Cyndi Lewis - Reply to this comment

4-2
8:54
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I see Chickens in the Road in your future… :mrgreen:

kacey - Reply to this comment

4-2
9:05
am

There is nothing in the world like reaching into a coop and picking out still-warm eggs for breakfast. It’s a great way to remember where our food comes from, and better yet ~ it’s a great way to move our dollars away from the unfortunate battery hen industry. Keep happy chickens and get fresh eggs! Fun!

Jen-o-topia in TN - Reply to this comment

4-2
9:17
am

Ah! Jealousy! I was just commenting to The Wookiee yesterday how we needed a chicken. I refuse to let a 600 square foot apartment stand in the way of fresh eggs.

Robin G. - Reply to this comment

4-2
9:27
am

Can’t wait to see the hatchlings!!

Jill S. - Reply to this comment

4-2
9:28
am

Congratulations on getting your first (soon to be) chickens.

Kathleen in MI - Reply to this comment

4-2
9:48
am

One of my daughters was fortunate enough to have the only teacher in school who would set eggs. Every spring she would set about 2 dozen eggs and let the first graders watch and wait for them to hatch. The kids loved it, it was a great science lesson and when the chicks hatched, they went back to the farm to live.

Amy - Reply to this comment

4-2
10:46
am

YAY!

Mental P Mama - Reply to this comment

4-2
11:14
am

you’re gonna’ have some chickens, you’re gonna’ have some chickens

margie - Reply to this comment

4-2
11:31
am

Did I smell an omlette cooking this morning?

Shirley - Reply to this comment

4-2
11:37
am

Are those the start of your chickens?

Wow, just had a flashback to when my parents took me to see The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (aka The Chicken Ranch)

…and to the house before this one…the property the development was on was an old chicken farm.

Amy Addison - Reply to this comment

4-2
11:46
am

Yeah! I love my chickens.

Remudamom - Reply to this comment

4-2
12:29
pm

OVA!! How egg-citing. (sorry)

Iowa Cowgirl - Reply to this comment

4-2
1:08
pm

Your rooster sure is puuurrdy!

Melissa - Reply to this comment

4-2
3:14
pm

Yay eggs. Please let us know what type of chickens you are going to be hatching/ have.

~A

Alison - Reply to this comment

4-2
3:15
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Can’t wait to see them hatch!

Brandy - Reply to this comment

4-2
3:48
pm

The start of your flock!

Estella - Reply to this comment

4-2
3:51
pm

How long before they hatch? I can’t wait to see your little chicks!

Susan - Reply to this comment

4-2
5:24
pm

I think after seeing the baby chicks hatch I may have a hard time eating eggs – on the other hand I LUV EGGS – it’s a dilema I went food shopping today and the price of eggs has gone up quite a bit.

catslady - Reply to this comment

4-2
6:01
pm

How can you tell that a hen is a layer or one that is raised for meat? That is one thing that was gone on the farm when I was a kid.

Maryann - Reply to this comment

4-2
6:26
pm

I’m told all these will be layers, which can also be eaten, as long as they aren’t named. The eggs take about 3 weeks to hatch.

52 Chickens - Reply to this comment

4-2
6:27
pm

Are you going to hatch your own?!!! You’re going to love that! We just candled our eggs last night. It’s such a great learning experience for the kids too.