[brwnsuga]

We got our daughter, who is 17, has a subscription to Mother Earth News. We found some chicken coop plans that we liked in there. Hopefully, our dream of chickens will come true one day. (For some reason, my baby girl is into....old fashioned things. She taught herself to knit and crochet, she wants to learn how to quilt and hunt. She bugged my husband to help her start her own garden in her own corner of the back yard. She also wants to learn to cook over an open fire. She is smart, charming, beautiful...and slightly loopy. We love her though.)

[goat granny]

Chickens are easy, you'll love having your own eggs. But if you start off with baby chicks they won't lay eggs for several months. All of my kids and grand kids are slightly loopy here too..Thats the best way to be. They are the ones that don't follow the crowd, they think for themselves...You just have to remember to close up the coop at night, or some predator will get them...I let some of my old biddies sit eggs and hatch out their own babies...It is fun. The babies follow them around learning what to eat and what not to eat....

I also got into raising Ringneck Pheasants and Chinese Red golden Pheasants. But I had bought a table top incubator and got the eggs from a friend (that had a rooster). My grandkids loved to see the baby chicks moving inside the eggs when I would candle them...

Your daughter sounds like a sweet gal....lucky you...When we bought the farm (it was 100 years old) and already had barns and a coop so we were lucky, it also had an old ice house and milk house. Over the years it had been many things including a dairy farm... Have a great weekend. GG