First family pets

The Waldeck family is now the owners of 4 Brown Shaver hens - our first family pets! We bought them from a free range egg farm - old stock they were selling off. And they seem to have settled well into their new surroundings, scratching around in the dirt... We didn't even have to train them to go into their chook house at night...I went out there after dinner expecting to have to man-handle them in there, but all four of them were already inside, so all I had to do was shut the door!

(They cost us $7 each, so based on the price I pay for a dozen free range eggs at the markets, they will have to lay one dozen eggs each to pay us back - not taking into account any of the other set up costs )