Robertson Ranch Excitement!

5 Egg days are really exciting around here!  Someday soon we might have a 7 egg day!  Every time I open the nest door, and see eggs in there I count it as a gift:-)

The Girls...

This Lady...Mabel, let her secret out...And now all the girls are all free ranging when I leave the gate open, and apparently when Daniel doesn't close the gate tight enough:-) AND now at least 4 hens are LAYING...We have been getting between 2-4 eggs a day for a few days!

This is Goldie, she gave us a little scare the other night when we got home late and she hadn't made it into the coop.  I found her on the roof of the coop, she was very groggy and pretty much asleep.  I had to rescue her and get her into the coop...it involved a ladder and the boys helping but we got it!

This is Sparkle, she's a beauty! She is also the most skittish...

Mabel the queen...

I don't know why, but this picture is idyllic to me...Chickens in the foreground boys in the background:-)  life is good!

This is Martha, Mabel's best bud...

OK time to make dinner, which means its getting close to fox hunting times, or so I think so I want them back in the run...Holden trying to lead them back...

Sparkle says, "What?  Can't you see we are walking!"

Finally following Holden...

Daniel is bringing up the rear...

I didn't get a picture of Blackie, she's well black...looks a little like Mabel but she has a beautiful green sheen to her feathers.  They were all in their run.  I planted these grasses hoping they would grow big, I dont think the girls are going to let that happen.  Oh well!

Meet Mabel the Free Ranger...

Well we've had our chickens for a little over two weeks.  We have a fox or maybe foxes that roam our property, so I thought my dream of free ranging was dead.  But, I wanted to try, and figure if I start losing chickens then, I will know, I cannot free range.  So I leave the gate open some days when I am home all day...so far Mabel is the only one who has decided to leave the run.  So...she is our free ranger...not to be confused with free loader, as she is the only hen laying right now:-)

She seems pretty happy out here!