We Have a New Member of Our Family!

Yes you did read that correctly we have a new member of our family, in fact we have 3. Edward, Jacqueline, and Queja. Edward obviously is the rooster, and the other two the egg factories. If it wasn't clear from the beginning we have chickens. A sister in Christ here who runs a soup kitchen type deal for kids during the day while their parents are at work. (They don't go to school, so they are left to fend for themselves, they are in elementary school and so they end up not eating anything) Anyways she has chickens in order to gather the eggs to feed the kids. While we were there last helping her I mentioned that I wanted some chickens and asked where a good place to buy them was. She then proceeded to round up two hens and a rooster for us, and refused to let me pay her for them. She said that the Lord had blessed her with many spring chickens, so she was able to bless us. The Lord and Hermana Maria are both sweet.

Since their arrival the chickens have stinkin nuts. The rooster took a while to figure out what time the sun rose, so there were a couple of 4am wake up calls before he got it figured out. One of the hens kept disappearing into the jungle for hours at end. We suspect she went and laid an egg out there because I didn't keep her locked up long enough the first couple of days. Anyway one of them eventually did lay our first edible egg. So their usefulness is starting to outweigh their more annoying features.

















Here are some pictures of them.The first is a picture of their little shelter that Chris the girls and I rigged up, they sleep in there every night after roaming the jungle for little snippets to eat The rooster is pretty ugly but kinda scrappy so it makes up for it. he two hens are different breeds, as is the rooster, but you can tell the difference because one has a pinecone looking comb and the other a normal looking one, and really short legs. The first hen picture here is the pinecone one aka Jacqueline. The next one is the short legged one - Queja (spanish for complaint).
And here is a picture of our firstfruits of the chickens. We are not sure who laid this bad boy, I just poked my head in to lock them up for the night (we have to keep the many predators that live around here out) and voila there it was in the nesting box and nobody was sitting on it.

So there you have it the new additions to our families, some jungle chickens.

P.S. I (Eulogio) did not name the chickens, I do not name my food, nor the things from whence my food comes. The two Leahs named the chickens.