The chicken in your house or the egg in your house?
Well, for us it was definitely the chicken in the house. We kept chickens (Buff Orpingtons!) several years back, but had grown tired of the constant chicken issues...always having to shut them up at night (they are definitely a delicious favorite amongst the local wildlife population!) and chicken poop on the porches, and whatnot. Apparently we went without them long enough to forget these things, because this year when we drove past the sign at the co-op that said they had chicks for sale, we just HAD to stop. So then we had 12 chicks and it was March. Therefore there were chicks in the house for a month or so before it was generally warm enough to put them out in our chicken house, with plastic over the windows and a heat lamp at night. They have grown up now and are starting to lay. And since we have 2 puppies at our house still (anybody looking for a super sweet, small-sized, doggy companion?) we have been propping the dog flap open while we get them house-broken (and they are doing very well with that!) So just guess who thinks it is an open door for her to come in and lay her eggs in a climate-controlled, safe setting? This hen just jumped up on the bench by the back door (pay no mind to the messy pile-up everyone) and scratched around in these jackets/paper towels/coveralls and sat down to lay.
Fresh eggs anyone?
That is too funny! We are preparing ourselves for chickens, ducks, geese and goats. Doing all the reading we can now before we get them.
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