Egg-cellent recipes

Our chickens are laying eggs consistently now. We usually have 4-6 eggs per day from the six chickens. We have three Rhode Island Reds and three Buff Orpingtons. The color of their eggs varies quite a bit each day. The darker red chickens actually lay the lighter, white eggs and the paler buff chickens lay the darker brown eggs. This article has great info about the why behind the color of eggs.

With so many eggs, I have been trying different recipes to utilize them for dinners. From left to right: Toast cups with eggs, garlic toast with ham, asparagus and fried eggs and bip bam bop variation with rice, veggies and a fried egg. If you have a favorite egg recipe - send it our way and I'll add to my Pinterest board to try soon.

Green and growing!

We have freshly grown and mowed grass in our front yard. The transformation of the front is still a work in process (painting will be next) but the grass looks great and is already such a change from when we bought the property. Check the before photos here.

In the backyard, we have planted a vegetable garden. We are looking forward to tomatoes, beans, corn, cucumbers, squash, strawberries, beets, spinach, lettuce and other fresh produce throughout the summer.

We put a low fence up around the veggies to keep the roaming chickens from helping themselves to the fresh sprouts. So far its working well!

Trees and flowers are in bloom all around our house!