Okay... so...being crappy sick all the time, I have watched more TV in the last few weeks than since I was a kid. And HD TV brings PBS to life. I am inspired to live more green. Maybe it is that spring is in the air but this is the inspiration I had.....ready for this......I want to raise chickens.
Okay, so do we get reported to the HOA (there was nothing in the codes covenants and restrictions about raising chickens) and do my neighbors think we are a little nutty back woods? Think of it, organic eggs (when it comes to my food, hormones and antibiotics freak me out, I don't want my daughters to start puberty at 8 years old) plus it teaches children to respect animals and work ethic. The closer we are to our food source the better it is for us. Then we could use the manure to fertilize the garden. I'm I getting freaky on anyone yet? I'm sure chicken poop is great for a compost pile. I haven't shared my inspiration with Spencer yet. But he is on the path because today he went to the hardware store with 2 kids and bought a couple hundred dollars of trax wood to build our grow boxes. Why is it that when you Google grow boxes it automatically thinks you want to grow cannabis?
I'm going to have to think more about the housing of the chickens and stuff.
Our backyard would be a 10 year old boys dream. With the river to huck stuff into and the wild animals to catch....chicken eggs to collect......poop to compost......ohhh yeah. Sometimes I think I should have been born male. How do dolls even come close to toads? I always tease Spencer that I use the power tools more than he does. But pregnancy kinda holds me back.
