Clarice and crew!

We got chickens!! On Saturday Hunter and I drove for about 2 1/2 hours total to pick up a 1 yr old hen from Craigslist in Brush Prarie, WA. The lady had an awesome farm with lots of chickens but this hen wanted to be out with the people and wouldn't stay back with the hens where she was supposed to. I figured she'd be a great friendly hen and she is! She's super adorable and outgoing and chill, and we love her. Brandon named her Clarice, she's named after Clarice in Silence of the Lambs. :)

I gave her some leftover corn on the cob this morning and she ate it right up! It'll be so fun giving our food scraps to them instead of composting and we can still compost their poop, which will be great for the garden next year!

Cora is the only dog to have met Clarice when she's outside the run and she seems ok with her. She's really easy to catch too when you want to put her back in the run. For now we'll keep Cooper and Clyde separated from her, they are both super curious and I think they need to get used to her through the chicken run before we try a 'nose to beak' meet-n-greet. Clarice did give Cora nice peck on the nose, so I think she'll be able to hold her own with the other dogs.

So then today I found another farm from Craigslist in Sheridan, OR about an hour from us that had a bunch of young and 1 yr old hens to choose from. Teri came along for the ride with Hunter and I. We had to stop at Lowe's real quick and Hunter and I waited in the car and I snapped this super cute pic.

We finally got to the farm after driving through the most gorgeous scenery, seriously, so beautiful. I am envious of these people, they have the cutest farm with so many animals. Check out the geese that were in our way as we made it back to the hen house on the driveway.

I didn't get any other pics of their place, which is a bummer, but we'll be back out there in August to pick up our new goat that we're getting! Ok, so we're not getting it, but Teri is! Well, we're at least going to try our hardest to talk Mark into it. This goat (no name yet) and his sister, Roxy, would keep that farm area cleaned up nicely. :) Isn't he adorable!?! He was really sweet and friendly too. Only a few months old I think, and he'll be ready to live on the Case farm in August.

Oh, so, how could I forget, we did get two 2 month old hens from their farm! I didn't really get any good pics of them yet, they are a little nervous so didn't want to be shoving my camera in their face. But you can kind of see them in the background of the picture below. One is a Buff Orpington and the other a Barred Rock. We're still working on their names...

And I also got a pleasant surprise from Clarice, our first egg!!! We all thought it'd be days or even weeks until she layed because of the stress of the dogs, but nope, she layed one in a day! I was checking all day today too and I was shocked to actually see one when I went to show Teri the little nests Clarice put together.


More chicken pics coming soon!