Scott's Chicken Farm

Acacia & Eden have spent many hours watching and holding the chicks

Caleb pouring over the Buckerfield's ad, making plans for his pig farm-note the overalls. You can't see the gumboots, but they're there, too!

Picking up our chicks-we actually went to get them on Wednesday, but the lady had made a mistake, so Wednesday and Thursday were VERY LONG days as we anticipated our new babies arrival!

As of Friday, April 9th, 2010, we are official chicken farmers! It doesn't sound as good as "Scott's Berry Farm", but it does seem to be more fun so far! Last week we purchased 30 tiny 1 day-old chicks. Of course, all the kids are thrilled, and we can hardly keep the girls away from the pen, but none have taken it to heart so much as Caleb, who can't believe we're actual farmers so much sooner than he had dared to hope!

The boys in particular were running out of pants without large rips in the knees, so I dug out their boxes of "clothes coming up" and found a pair of overalls someone had given us that were too long. Caleb tried them on and after failing to convince me that they fit just perfectly, he begged me to hem them RIGHT AWAY! That was Saturday, and he's been wearing them every day since except Tuesday when I convinced him that since he was going to Nana & Papa's, he possibly could do without them while they washed! He's also begun to get up quietly before 6:30am so that he can put on his overalls & gumboots and go for a run with Piper around the property. "Just so I get used to waking up at this time for when I have lots of animals and farm chores" he tells us. On Sunday morning, I found him after the morning run, sitting at the kitchen table with the calculator, just pouring over the Buckerfield's ads, calculator, pen & paper in hand, making a list of supplies he will be needing! Our friend Helen gave him a book called "Joel, Growing Up a Farm Man" which has further inspired him. We've been reading it as often as Caleb can convince us we have time and we've been learning all about things like how to castrate pigs lately, so thank you, Helen! Most informative and inspiring! (Joel got to drive a tractor when HE was 8!) Fortunately, Nathan's tractor is still in parts, as the restoration seems to be taking longer than anticipated!