tbcorum

I started with 6 hens & 1 Rooster (Rhode Island Reds) not knowing very much about chickens except what I had read on line or magazines!! Being an animal lover, soft & tender hearted, & yes motherly female , they soon became like spoiled babies!!! They each had names according to traits, personality so off and running I went with my love for chickens!! As my love & flock grew so did my demands for them!! This is where I got in trouble & still am in trouble!! Do u know how hard it is to find people to help you build quality coops and fences with you at your place without charging u ur entire life savings or ur entire income when u on social security like me??? Luckily I did have a friend that could help until his own family needs required just about all of his time so now it is me again that knows how to build nothing !! When u live with no one to help you built things and u don't know urself....this is a Hugh hurdle to cross!! U either gotta Find a friend, rob a bank, win the lottery, hope the rich person in the family remembers you in the will, get married or get a boyfriend to help you, suddenly become a carpenter yourself and guess what happens ??? You have to learn lots of skills you never , ever thought u would!! I am telling you this so u know before hand , chickens have to have watering stations that are clean, clean areas to roost so not to be attracting flies and other creatures, you need laying boxes, u must be well read and none of this stuff from the older generation---well we use to do....well guess what folks? This is a different age , time and generation and you dealing with a lot more diseases, problems of predators bc people have cut all the woods down , bacteria and viruses have changed strands thru the yrs and the list continues!! Would I give my girls up even with the work they are??
Not on your life!! They are my pets, I love them like some do their dogs or cats and now have approx 60 chickens of different breeds and hatching eggs in incubator to sell of guineas and Bantam Silver Seabrights& Golden Seabrights & Silkies which brings on another issue of got to keep them dry , warm and draft free so that means completely enclosed area !! Yes I did it to myself so I do the work myself !! Slow and steady here she goes - work a little , rest alot , work a little more , rest some more ! It will get done eventually before I die and if not - guess what - the next person can take it over and finish where I left over but I left my mark there for them to complete & my love for my birds they will never match !!! I have turkeys I have adopted & oh u don't know poultry love till u have turkey I also have guineas !! They are awesome bug eaters !!
Love my job of the chicken lady as everyone calls me & that is perfectly fine by me !! When I drive up or open door and everybody comes running at me to say Hello !!! Love it !! I have one goose and she raised a baby duck that was left on door step in a cage for me and Mother Goose was literally Mother Goose & took the duck & would not let me or any animal around her baby and a yr later it's still her baby! She taught that baby how to take a bath iin the kiddy pool and that was the funniest thing bc I thought she was killing that baby but she was teaching her how to dive head under water bc she didn't want to so mother Goose grabbed her head and held her under water to teach her to dive !! Scared me and I tried to stop her and she let me know real quick she was boss of that situation and back up so that is when I figured out what she
Was doing! God gives animals the knowledge they need to survive -- incredible - they are smarter than humans !!
Do I get the return of what is in them as a whole?? Probably not but the joy of them is 100 times greater than any money can buy and that is priceless !! Once a chicken is brought here, it stays till it dies!! It is home for good !!! This is my chicken life and how I started and no plans to quit any time soon!! Who needs a comedy club, go to the chicken coop & take a seat & observe & I promise you this - laughter, entertainment that is FREE & it will make you forget about anything else for a brief moment in time and you will feel better afterwards!!!