The Chicken Operative

So after much consideration and two years of "talking" it over the hubby and alot of begging from the boys we, well I decided to take the leap and buy some chickens!  Ahhh!  What am I doing?!  Actually it's not that bad but I took a leap and being a city girl with no "livestock" experience I'm slowing working it all out.  We lost three babies ( very, very sad face) but I think in it we have all learned some valuable lessons in chick raising and hopefully future members of our flock will thus flourish.  We started a bit backwards and weren't as prepared as we should have been before bringing the girls home but that's the way I work sometimes, actually I couldn't get my coop built until it was absolutely necessary which meant buy the chicks and he'll have to built it, wink, wink.  So we started our chicken adoption day early and made an hour drive to the city...ha, imagine that living in the country and buying chickens from the city, doesn't really make much sense but again that's the way I roll, senseless.  So we picked up three beautiful 4 week old Wyandottes; two silver-laced and one gold-laced...Dotte, Henrietta, and Mable and braved the journey home.  Not having planned the whole " where are these chickens gonna go" thing out I borrowed Dakota, our very generous German Shepherd's kennel and the girls set up shop, I did think ahead a bit and they had food and water available.  Then set off on another road trip this time only 45 minutes away and smack in the middle of no where, these chickens are as country as they come.  We purchased 7 brand new chicks- three Columbian Wyandottes and four Blue-lace Red Wynadottes from an extremely wonderful family and lets just say better kept chickens compared to the "city" ladies.  Sparkle, Ethel, Mimi, Tiny, Shiny, Greasy, and Pearl. The boys were so excited and smiled all the way home, which made all the effort a success.  That is the short version of our adoption day, there were so many crazy but unimportant details in there, but bottom line I started down a crazy chicken filled road and am very excited to share more with you wonderful readers of mine.

This post is dedicated to Sparkle, Ethel, and Shiny.  For the short time you were with us we loved you.