Another Year Older plus happenings on the farm

So tomorrow is my 27th birthday.  I am both happy and sad about this.  Happy because I am another year wiser, sad because it puts me one year closer to 30.  My parents are coming up and taking us (Hunter and myself) out to dinner, as well as bringing my bed I have had since I was 10...(it was temporarily living at their house while we decided where to put it) 
We renovated the chickens living space, to be 1 5x10, 1 10x10, and 2 5x5 kennels.  This allowed us to separate the bantams from the regular chickens, and the new LF english orpingtons we got last weekend(as they are SQ or show quality birds and can't risk messing up their feathers)  we are also up to a few more eggs each day...Tillie Millie is laying a brown egg, Mrs. Frizzle a tiny off white egg, and most recently Violet has started laying a beautiful blue egg.  (That's right I said Blue)  now if only the other hens would start laying.  We have 4 buff orpingtons (in addition to the 2 new orpingtons), 6 americauna hens, and 4 Rhode island reds.  That gives us at least 16 regular sized eggs a day...if you add in the Polish and the other bantams you are looking at another 15 -20 bantam eggs too.  That is a lot of eggs!! luckily its not all at once

Don't give up on me yet...

Well as I warned all of you when I started this blog, there was a possibility it would end tragically like my other one.  This is not the case, in fact I really enjoy writing this blog and sharing all of my happenings around the farm.  I am however extremely busy at the moment, and can't seem to find the time necessary to sit down and write.  I am currently managing 3 Subway stores (2 in addition to my normal store) and this is now taking up a good chunk of what used to be my free time, we have a new litter of puppies (1 week old yesterday), and another litter due any time now.  I am now spending my free time with my chickens (they are my stress relief), giving Hunter a break from puppy watching, and sleeping.  I have completely lost my tan that I worked so hard to get at the end of spring, my hair is a mess and I am falling behind on my writing, but I am happy as well so I can't complain too much. 

In other news...
We have finally started getting some eggs from the girls...one Orpington (Tillie Millie) and my Frizzle (currently named Frack (her mate is named Frick) are both laying eggs and taking turns hiding them from us, but I am up to 4 so far, almost enough for us to both have omelets

We decided to keep one of the chocolate females from the Mac and Rachel litter.  Her registered name will be Twilight's Witchy Woman, with her call name being Tempest.  She is a very sweet little girl and she absolutely loves to snuggle (and snore) on the couch or bed with us.

Thats all the news for the moment...maybe I will have time for a picture update tomorrow.