How to raise urban chickens not dixie chicks, part II
This is the sceond segment from the Martha Stewart Show on 4/2 that I found extreemely helpful. It features Traci Torres founder of of MyPetChicken.com. In the clip she goes into more depth about how to get started and mentions that her company offers an affordable chicken starter package under $70 that has everything (including chickens) a newbie city chicken farmer needs to get started. Most notably MyChicken.com can ship chickens in groups of 25 or less which most hatcheries will not.
I am already fantasizing about showing up to all of my high profile dinner parties (that will surly exist by the time I have chicken-laying hens) with a basket of exotic looking shades of speckled eggs much to the delight and envy of all of my contemporaries.
In my quest for more information about chicken rearing I found some interesting articles including this one, which thanks to my bad speed reading skills, I thought was entitled “Sexting* Baby Chickens”. Which I thought was a clever title for possibly some sort of sweet talking your chickens to get them to lay more eggs. In actuality it is entitled “Sexing Baby Chickens” and is about one hatcher’s method for determining hen or rooster. Which got me to thinking, I ONLY want hens. I have no need for fertilized eggs or a 5 am alarm clock that I can’t unplug. Note to self: find a way of only getting lady birds. The entire site: fowlvisions.com is pretty great and goes into some advanced details on raising happy chicks, even if they aren’t sexting them.
Cluck cluck cluck.
* Don’t know what “Sexting” is? Then you don’t have a teenager.
4 Comments
Juliei so miss my chickens
ericthey grow so fast
and I am jealous.
i seriousky have 5 chickens livibg in my garage in university park.