CHOOKS!??!?!!
May. 19th, 2013 01:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
potato_headSo there's this town meeting coming up where they're going to vote on revising how much land you need to keep chickens and dad brought it up and mentioned that a lot of people are keeping chickens these days and this happened
Me: I'm going to keep chickens.
Dad: Why don't you start now and keep chickens here?
Me: Wait what?
Mom: We're not having chickens.
Dad: *is already dialing the number of his friend who keeps chickens* hey where'd you get your chickens?
Mom: Well we would need the coop to be such and such size but we're not having any
~LITERALLY 5 MINUTES LATER~ I come outside to find them looking at where outside we're going to put the coop and talking about how many we can keep
W H A T iS GOING ON NNN
CHICKNESS?????
O U O
P.S. I went to the bathroom and came back and mom was looking at chicken coops on my laptop
we're gettin chickums
P.P.S. Preliminary breeds list (we're going to go to a local farm that sells chicks and see what they have of what we want, once we have the coop together): Australorp, Chantecler, Easter Egger, Plymouth Rock, Rhode Island Red, Sussex, Welsummer, Wyandotte
Coop refs: Coop de Ville, Feather Factory, Wichitaw Cabin Coop, more and more.
Me: I'm going to keep chickens.
Dad: Why don't you start now and keep chickens here?
Me: Wait what?
Mom: We're not having chickens.
Dad: *is already dialing the number of his friend who keeps chickens* hey where'd you get your chickens?
Mom: Well we would need the coop to be such and such size but we're not having any
~LITERALLY 5 MINUTES LATER~ I come outside to find them looking at where outside we're going to put the coop and talking about how many we can keep
W H A T iS GOING ON NNN
CHICKNESS?????
O U O
P.S. I went to the bathroom and came back and mom was looking at chicken coops on my laptop
we're gettin chickums
P.P.S. Preliminary breeds list (we're going to go to a local farm that sells chicks and see what they have of what we want, once we have the coop together): Australorp, Chantecler, Easter Egger, Plymouth Rock, Rhode Island Red, Sussex, Welsummer, Wyandotte
Coop refs: Coop de Ville, Feather Factory, Wichitaw Cabin Coop, more and more.
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Date: 2013-05-20 01:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-20 01:05 pm (UTC)And yaaay Easter Eggers and RIRs! They will all be beautiful and fun birds though. If you get them from titchy babbies and pay them lots of gentle attention they will be super friendly (not only is this fun, it makes them hella easier to work with).
Congratz! One dream realized much sooner than expected. :D
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Date: 2013-05-20 03:25 pm (UTC)(Assuming the new law passes) it will be legal for us to have up to 6 hens, so that's how much we're going to build the coop for, but I think we'll start with just 4 or 5. Dad was initially for some reason strongly against free-ranging them (I think because I mentioned a fence would have to be put up? Which I can understand because...right now we are using property on either side of our yard that isn't ours and technically doesn't belong to anybody LOL) but we're probably going to put up a wire fence around the coop so they can do some supervised free-ranging :D dad told me yesterday he's actually really excited about this, it was adorable, LOL.