A friend of mine recently popped my bubble about how chickens who lay the eggs you buy in the store are treated. Since then I've wanted to get our own chickens. Well, we went to the Farmers Exchange on Saturday and found some cute chicks. We went looking for tomatillo plants and ended up bringing home 8 chicks.
For the record, I will NEVER eat one of these chickens. We (not the collective me & Stuart we....just the me we) only want them for eggs and as pets.
The only way one of them will become dinner is if it's a rooster. We can't have roosters in town...not that we really want one.
They're cute little things and I love the sound of chirping inside. It makes me feel like it's spring for real outside!!
We bought 4 Leghorns (think Foghorn Leghorn from Looney Toons...they'll look like that), 2 Rhode Island Reds that lay brown eggs and 2 Ameraucanas that they call Easter egg layers because they lay different colors like...blue.
It may not be terribly cost effective as far as eggs go. However, they are a fun project for the kids and are a fairly easy pet.
This one is Terri....as in Terrell Davis the football player...can you see why?
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Love you new chickens, they are all very cute. Can't wait to see the chicken house Stuart is going to be building for them.
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