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Is Owning Chickens All It's Made Out To Be?


YAAASSS! I finally bought my own little chicks!! I have always wanted to have my own chickens, but living situations never made it feasible... UNTIL NOW!! 
I went to D&B and saw their chicks... after I picked some up and stared at them for 5 minutes, I knew I was not walking out of that store without 2-3. 

My fiance had left me home alone (never a good idea) and of course, when I'm alone, I do impulsive things :D SOOO I knew that this was the perfect opportunity to fulfill my chicken dreams. 

I have wanted chickens for years. Mainly for the eggs since I eat 3 egg whites every morning for breakfast. I'm constantly buying eggs. At least with my own chickens I get fresh eggs EVERY DAY! 

I bought the chicks, bought some medicated chick food, a water-thing, feeder, heat lamp and BOOM. I was ready to raise my own chickens.

I used a small plastic container, laid some newspaper down and some saw dust for the flooring. Set up my heat lamp that I mcgyvered with cheap parts from Walmart. ($4 heat bulb, $6 clip-on desk lamp). Then I set up my chicks temporary home!

 The first three chicks I got are Barred Plymouth Rock chicks. They grow up to look like this chicken and can produce up to 280 eggs a year!

As soon as I brought these chicks home, I was in love! They are so chill! I can just hold them while I'm watching TV and they will cuddle up and just snooze. Yes, they will poop on you but it is so tiny and easy to clean up, it's nothing (Unless their poop is runny like one of my chicks who I will not let hang out on me). My dogs are also so intrigued by them ! (but not in the "they want to kill and eat them" kind of way).

A few days later, I wanted a couple more chicks but a different breed, so I went and bought two Leghorn chickens! 

The Leghorns will look like this as adults and also lay around 280 eggs/year. (Except I just figured out on of my Leghorns is a male... so no eggs from that guy!)
Once they get bigger in a few weeks we will move them out into the coop we are building them. 

I'm a VERY happy chicken mom :)

-A.M. Vast-Heart

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