Friday, March 13, 2009

Egg Production

Our Golden Comets have been faithful egg layers since they started back in August. They really caught us off guard because they started laying before we were expecting them to. (Turns out they are early layers) This is our chicken coop and run. We are getting more chicks next month so we will have to expand the coop and the run before then.



You need one laying box (about a foot square) for every 3 or so chickens so we have seven. Here is one of our girls laying an egg. Even though they have seven boxes to choose from they have their favorites. When we pick up the eggs, there will be some boxes that have six or seven eggs and some that have none.
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Welcome to our family blog. We have a small (55 acres) farm and are attempting to raise beef cattle, some hay, laying hens, honey bees, a dog and a small garden. We also have a small pond that has fish in it but they pretty much raise themselves.The Twenty-eight eleven is the name of our farm. It comes from Deutronomy 28:11 which reads: "The LORD will make you abound in prosperity, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your beast and in the produce of your ground in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you." We count on God's blessings for our life as we know it so we thought it appropriate to go ahead and give Him all the glory for anything good that we produce, be it crops, cows, or children. This blog will be a fun project for us to document what is going on at our farm and hopefully share some natural ways of farming along the way (as we learn too).