Chickens

Ever since Kelton was about 5, we have talked about wanting a chicken coop with a bunch of chickens, fresh eggs etc. When we first moved into our home, Jim, Mckell and family brought us some chickens. Kelton named them Gilbert, Bob, and Bill. I teased him since they are girls, and he gave them boy names. He said he didn't care, those names "fit" them. I began to save egg cartons for the soon to be eggs. Kelton checked every day, some days twice... no eggs. After a couple months, we started asking IFA, and other "farmers" what to feed our chickens to get them to lay eggs. Late November, we realized all the chickens were male..... hence the no eggs. I guess Kelton "knew" they were male. haha. An old friend of Shad's stopped by just after the New Year bearing a gift of a hen. Kelton began checking again every day.... And look!


I took the boys to IFA the other day to get a few more. Here are our new little babies. They should be female, but if not, oh well. As Sammy told the employee there, that "our chickens were boys and dad killeded em and we ated em."