Day 39 with some new additions for omnivores

This is the day the children have been waiting for.  Wednesday is the day the new chicks arrive at the ag store.  How does that affect us?  Well, some months ago, Rodger found out that it is legal in our town to raise chickens in the city limits.  I found out that even Seattle allows chicken ownership in its boundaries!  What a surprise.  Well, this opened up new vistas for our animal lovers, and we are about to purchase some day old pullets.  Anticipation has the younger kids excited.

It will take 6 months or so before they could possibly lay their first eggs, but another project is in the works
around here.  Hopefully a fun and successful one.  I'm not expecting it will save us money, but I remember how fun it was to collect eggs when I was young, and hope my children will find joy in that as well.

Kate with baby Buff Orphington

Trudy with Silver laced Wyandotte

Little Golden Sex-link pullet checking out the camera

Rhode Island red chick is the first to find the water on her own.

My favorite, the Australorp

We bought a beautiful assortment of chicks.  They are really cute.  Our resident expert on hand washing is helping us remember how to avoid salmonella after we handle the chick-chicks.

My supper helper-girl forgot to put the rice on to boil in time for our supper, so when we arrived home with the day-old chicks, we had to change the dinner plans.  Everybody was pretty hungry, so I opted for pancakes and scrambled eggs.  It was the fastest, easiest cheap dinner I could think of (without any ramen in the house, that is...)

breakfast menu:  cold cereal and tea

Cost:  $2.00

cold cereal:  1.00

half gallon of milk:  1.00

lunch menu:  peanut butter sandwiches, carrot sticks, raisins, apple cobbler(left over from yesterday)

Cost:  $4.08

white bread from store:  .99

4 oz peanut butter:  .23

5 oz jam:  .32

21 oz carrots:  .36

1/2 gallon orange juice:  .99

1/2 oz cheese:  .19

10 oz raisins:  1.00

apple cobbler, paid for yesterday

snack:  toast and butter

Cost:  $.86 

.60 for bread,

 .20 for butter,

 .06 for peanut butter for 2 kids

supper menu:  scrambled eggs, pancakes with jam and powdered sugar

Cost:  $2.81

12 eggs:  .67

1 1/2 batch pancakes:  1.65

3 oz powdered sugar:  .12

4 oz jam:  .25

half a cube of butter:  .12

Today's total cost:  $9.75

pretty much a zero in the vegetable department today...but they worked in their vegetable gardens, does that count?