Chicken Eggs

It looks like a brown chicken is also starting to produce eggs, or should I say egg? I hope this is a try-out size, and not a permanent thing. On the right is an egg produced by the white chicken (aka. Katrien).

By the way, the chickens are doing fine. They love walking about and teasing the cat and cows. In the mornings they are already waiting for the hatch to open! Such a huge difference with the first weeks, when they hardly even dared to come outside. Now they’re even breaking into our house!

The Animals

So far, it looks like the animals are settling into their new environment. For some it has been a rather traumatic experience, but they’re coping pretty well and have adjusted to the rural way of life.

The fish are getting used to the new local cuisine..

Amat is sleeping after bringing in a dead mouse/rat again..

The Chickens are getting used to the great outdoors, and are enjoying themselves with having sandbaths. Furthermore they are developing the art of braking and entering into the human-house.

Last but not least, the cows are getting used to the very interesting stuff the humans are bringing into their meadow. I think everyone is pretty content with their new way of life.

The Chickens

There is not a farm without chickens, and now this one has them too! Through a Dutch initiative to rescue laying chickens before they are slaughtered called Red een Legkip, we ordered four chickens. Today we could pick them up at Vogel en Zoogdieren Opvangcentrum, an animal rescue in Limburg. In the end we came home with six ladies!
Please check out both amazing organisations, and at least like them on facebook!

The six ladies in the car, thank god that I have a huge banana-car.

The first moments in their new house, not as bad as they thought it was..