Eggs in the city

Well my girl Pearl (my Silkie Bantam chick) has finally decided to start laying eggs. She laid her first one on Nov. 25 and has been cranking them out ever since, almost daily (she takes a day off every 3 or 4 days).

I can't believe what joy there is in going out every morning and looking in the nesting box of the hen house and discovering the gift of an egg. Sometimes I even happen to look outside and notice that Pearl is in the hen house and I wait about 10 minutes and go out and there it is - a fresh, warm, beautiful egg. The Bantam breed of chickens is smaller than the average chicken and therefore have smaller eggs but I don't mind. I have been using two of Pearl's eggs to equal one large store bought egg and it seems to be working out just fine. I have farm fresh eggs right here in the city.

I found a wire egg basket on ebay. It had been barely used and the seller said she purchased it from an estate sale of a couple who visited Europe often and had a lot of vintage items. This basket is actually from Italy which is etched in the bottom of the basket. I think it looks like a flying saucer.

The chicks have arrived!!

Here are the newest additions to our family. The girls are all bantams so they will be about half the size of a regular chicken. Their eggs will be smaller too (it takes about 2 small bantam eggs to equal a large egg), but an egg is an egg, right?

They are all asleep except the gray one whom we named rascal in memory of Greg's cat who had the same coloring and was well, a rascal at times as this one is turning out to be. I just love how they fall asleep --they are just so darn cute!!

2 of them are silkies and will look like this when they grow up

2 of them are Ameracauna's and will look like this, they lay the gorgeous green and blue eggs

Yes, they even sleep standing up.

My daughter named this one "Kitty".

Well, enough cuteness for now.