They start out cute and adorable, then they grow up
Raising chickens sounds like a really great idea - but when I found out that James ordered 42 day old peeps that would be arriving in October 2014, I just stood there with that blank stare. He rationalized his logic, you get your own farm fresh eggs and you can sell the eggs. He forgot to mention that we could also listen to the roosters crow and wake us up at the crack of dawn, or for some crazy reason at 2:30 am before the sun even rises. We brought our chicken coop with us when we moved from AL to TN and we currently have ~35 chickens. We get about 2 dozen eggs a day, we put a sign in the front yard and we now sell eggs to anyone pulling in our driveway.
The picture on the right is of a hen modeling her chicken saddle!
We have had fun raising the chickens and a lot of laughs. We had to stop and question ourselves a few times -what do you do when you are getting two dozen eggs a day?
You can only eat so many eggs, hard boil them, pickle them, and look for any ideas that you can possibly find on Pintrest.
One thing we found on Pintrest was how to make a chicken saddle for our hens, the roosters were being too rough on them when they were "mounting" them. It was getting cold and the hens didn't have any feathers so we bought some flannel, made some saddles and put them on the hens.
THE BEES
