chickens

We have a small chicken coop at our suburban home in Broomall. It currently houses 3 heritage chickens, but we plan to add a couple more soon.

Our daughters have been doing poultry club at the Delaware County 4-H, and this year, we decided to bring their chickens home after the projects were over. The heritage chicken project ended a few weeks ago, so we brought home Julia's chicken (a mottled Java) and two others (a buff orpington and a blue cochin). When the laying hen project ends in October, we will bring home the girls' two laying hens (red sex-linked, whatever that means).

(I think it is very cool that Julia named her chicken Superchick. The other two are named Barlow and Eisley. Get it?)

Anyway, on Sunday, Dana found the first egg. Small, speckled, and brown. It's about time!