About a year ago (so not really that quickly) I told my
mother in law that if they got a milk cow I would get chickens and we could be
well on our way to not needing these things from the grocery store and worrying
that they were packed with hormones and such.
We already get our beef from a local farmer and so this would just be
another step in the right direction.
And then Buttercup came and my mother in law told me that I
have 5 speckled hens coming to my house on Tuesday, er tomorrow. So it’s actually all happening. Honestly I don’t think I can have chickens in
my backyard, but I’m going to roll with it until someone says something or I
get in trouble. I am on over an acre,
and not in a neighborhood so it really shouldn’t be an issue. And there are two horse farms on my street.
So I bought chicken feed over the weekend and have been racking my brain as to how I’m going to house these chicks! And then today I found a chicken coop online that wasn’t outrageously priced and hit proceed and hopefully by the weekend I’ll also have a chicken coop! until then the little girls can sleep in a big dog cage.
Here is their new house…
