Meet the family

Here are our children- Megan(9), Jonathan(5), Jami(7) & Alyssa (10).

This is our rooster. He is beautiful which is one of the primary reasons he is still with us.

This is our barred rock or "barack" seems very appropriate with our new president.

This is "Blackie." She is very funny, she will chase us when we come into their space. Its almost like she is playing tag. We have seen her do that with the cat too, who did not want to play.

We have three of these egyptian fayoumis which we called road runners from when they were little. They looked like the roadrunner from the cartoon, not anymore but the name stuck. The second picture if one of them in the nesting box being broodie I guess- she would screech and raise her feathers when ever we came into the coop- then she reminded me of the dinosaur from the movie Jurassic Park.

We had three of these buffed laced polish, they are the most docile and there fore the kids' favorite. They all had names- Butterscotch, Pumpkin and Cream. Unfortunately we lost Butterscotch to a predator, very traumatic for the kids, but they seemed to understand the circle of life that we tried to explain to them.This is my daughter Megan and her favorite Pumpkin.

Neither of these have names, but I think they are Adam's favorite.

We had three of these, but lost one to a predator. They are very pretty, and are a favorite of mine.

We started off with 12 of these. They are also very docile, but don't like to be picked up and held as the buffed laced do. We lost one of these to a predator, sold 9 and are there for left with two. One is named Trickey.

With the new chickens, only one got a name- Bolt, because it had a bolt shaped mark on her head when she was a chick. Now that they no longer have those same markings I would say they are all unnamed. There were too many of them at the beginning to pick any out in particular. Maybe now that we have only a few of each the kids will get closer to them.

We also have two cats- Mickey
and Minnie
two hamsters and a fish.