1, 2 Chickens, 1,2,3 Eggs

In these past few days a lot has happened so there is going to be a lot to write.  We are going to split this up into days so that we don't get confused.

      Day 1:  This day did not start out as happy as we would have liked because we had to get rid of our rooster Clem.  The reason was that where we lived roosters weren't allowed because they might disturb the neighbors. However, the guy who we gave him to seemed nice so that was comforting.  We had decided that we were going to buy some already laying chickens from someone so we worked on making our coop bigger for the rest of the day.  At the end of the day we brought them to our house and named them Mary and Charlotte. We restlessly awaited the morning.

       Day 2:  Disappointment. There were no eggs this morning and we were devastated.  We wanted them to have eggs so badly now.  But they just wouldn't come.  So we tryed to encourage them by buying wooden eggs to put in their nesting boxes and it worked!  I, Layla was scanning my eyes over the chicken coop when outside of the actual coop I saw an egg. It must just be a wooden egg that they kicked out of the coop I thought, but it was a real egg! It was very exciting. By the way, Charlotte laid it.

      Day 3:  It is still Day 3 and not much has happened except for both of the new chickens laid an egg and I, Layla watched it.  I learned that they help each other when having eggs.

Pets and more

We have a lot of pets and there are interesting things about all of them.  Right now we will talk about our chickens and our duck. Our dad's chicken is named Greta, Layla's (mine) is named Annabell Lee (after an Edgar Allan Poe poem), Josiah's (mine) is named Chirper, Hannah's is named Clementine or Clem because we just figured out he is a rooster, Ruth's is named Laura and moses's is named Sallybird.  Our two smallest were taken by a hawk.  We also have a duck who lives with the chickens named Jemima.

We also have two kittens and a dog. The kittens names are Genesis and Exodus. They are both boys. Our dog is a girl named Nicki who we got from the neighbors. She runs away all the time. Other than these pets we have a few wild pets including bass, bluegill, tadpoles and crawfish.  That is all for now about our pets. Now the pictures.

Josiah and Chirper

 Jemima

Annabell Lee and Clem

We are a brother and a sister.  Our names are Layla and Josiah.  We are home schooled and we live with lots of brothers and sisters and our mom and dad.  A few days ago we went down to a river and caught giant tadpoles. They are all about four inches long, head to tail.  Some of them are almost frogs but not yet. We have six chicks and one duckling, two kittens, a dog and a pond of fish.

Layla loves reading, writing, fishing, playing guitar and keyboard and talking to birds.

Josiah loves reading, drums, drawing, fishing, legos and exploring.

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