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Since Orem City made chicken keeping legal to all...we figured we better get some!  We drove all the way down to Monroe because a woman down there had 6 Brahma pullets for sale (they have the feathery feet).  We made a fun day out of it and made some stops along the way, first at a Chinese Restaraunt in Payson that was super delish.  I know, chinese food in Payson?  It was way better than anything in Orem though lol.  Then we stopped at this antique store in, well I don't know but it's on the way to my cousins ranch and Joe and I have always wanted to stop there.  It's kind of pricey but we found a couple of cool things.

We found an old playskool wagon with blocks for the kids

Joe got some old Linemar steam engine toy from the 1920's made in Japan, it has all the parts and is perfect

I got a spice rack with roosters on the bottles, I thought it approprate for the occasion :)

Here's some of the chickens.  They are still a little scruffy from the farm and the travel

The upright one is super fast. 

This is Mia's chicken, "Pigeon" we got her for free because her foot was frost bitten so she is a bit gimpy, but easy for the kids to catch.  Joe wonders why we had to get a special needs chicken.

This is one of the full grown ones, she's still a bit muddy but pretty hah?

You are probably wondering why we really got chickens.  Well first for farm fresh organic eggs, second their poop is great for the garden they eat all the bad bugs and are great lawn aereators (however you spell that) and thirdly because it will be fun for us and the kids (and less maintenance than a dog!)

Mia found the first egg!  Medium brown and I ate it today!  The yolk was a dark sunny orange color, beautiful!  "Eggs from chickens allowed to forage naturally have, on average, seven times more beta carotene (which is what makes pastured egg yolks so orange), three times more vitamin E, two times more omega-3 fatty acids and two-thirds more vitamin A than their factory farm cousins. Pastured eggs also have one-third less cholesterol and one-quarter less saturated fat, on average."