As mentioned a couple posts ago we now have a new, really cool chicken coop. The coop was built because we had a couple donors that wanted to buy us some chickens. We had also received some money from our missions gift catalogue. Well I hooked up with our good friend Jeff Morgan and we went for a tour of the chicken operations at the agricultural university and we brought home 10 beautiful HyLine Brown hens. They are a breed that are excellent egg layers and in their first 2 days with us they have given us 17 eggs.
The chicken coop is a huge hit with the hens although they haven't quite gotten the hang of using the nesting boxes yet. We have found eggs on the floor, under the ladder, half way up the ladder and right beside the feed tray. The hens seem very happy in their new home and the kids at the children's home are very happy to have their new friends. So the next time you come on a work team, who knows, you may be eating farm fresh eggs right from our very own chickens.
Today we hosted a work team from an international Christian school here in Lima. The kids were great fun and very hard workers. They helped us by sanding all the walls and ceilings in the 5th house and then painting primer on the walls. They also did some landscaping behind house 3 getting ready to put grass there. Another group of them helped us by digging a couple really big holes so that we can transplant some trees onto the property.
We had hosted a team from this school a few years ago at the care center in Manchay where they did some painting for us as well. These kids were so respectful and really enjoyed themselves during their time with us.
Thank you to all of the students and teachers who joined us in Pachacamac to help us further our building project there. Hope to see you next year.
