Egg Helpers

This new chicken house of ours has turned into more work then we ever anticipated and we had to hire a weekly worker to go through the house 5 hours a day and just pick up eggs off the floor. Bre told me the other day that she didn't like the hired man and when I asked her why she said, 'he takes my work!' In other words my kids think they are big enough to be the farm helpers (when really they are just playing around) but I took photos of them at the job site and they actually were doing the work like we expect our hired man to do it.

At night all the chickens are on the perches but during the day they are EVERYWHERE so the kids just run up and down the aisles chasing the clusters of chickens probably scaring the eggs out of them.

Trey likes to use the "egg picker upper" (I'm sure there's a "specific" name for that grabber but I'm still not farmer enough to know what it is) to pick the eggs off the floor.

Once he's got an egg in his mechanical fingers...........................

he hands it up to Breanne (here he dropped the egg. Another one bites the dust!)

And she pops them in the nest. They will literally do this for HOURS!!!!!
It's so fun watching my kids play and work together as a team. They really do love being together and are quickly becoming best friends.