So, Monday morning we had to butcher a couple of our older Chickens. They turned egg eaters. That's never a good thing, so as you can imagine we are holding our breath hoping that nobody else is going to turn egg eater. Frank went ahead and just skinned them, and we threw them directly into the pot and cooked them down and off of the bone. And then we turned all of that into soup, which we canned. We got 11 quarts out of that. This weekend we are going to make beef soup to can and put away for the winter.
My Easter Egg chickens that we got back in the spring should be about ready to start laying anytime now!! I'm so ready to see just what color eggs they will give us. The wait is getting kind of hard. I feel like a kid in a candy shop.
In the last picture here, are 2 of the 7 roosters from our last hatching. They are really quite pretty, but will be future soup. I think they need a couple more months to get some size on them, but I'm not sure they will get too much bigger than this.
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