Chicken Farming

Several weeks Conley, the girls and I decided we wanted to try our hand at chicken farming. Conley already had the set up at his house with a brooder, and fenced in coop area. All we needed were the chickens. A friend of ours has quite the chicken collection so we went to visit him and get the scoop on chicken raising and we ended the visit with the most handsome rooster and a few weeks later we inherited another one. He had enough roosters for a rather large cock fight so he needed to get rid of few.

 

Introducing Phyllis. He obviously has hair like Phyllis Diller. I actually had no idea who she was until Conley showed me an on-line pic. We just hope he doesn't have a gender complex.

 

Introducing Beaker. Like the Muppet.

 

The babies, Stormageddon, George, and Gaylord, the other five remain nameless or I just can't remember. The girls each picked out two and they had a 50/50 chance of being hens, then we made sure to pick out four hens. I have a strong suspicion that there is at least one rooster.

We bought them at 4 days old ....

and have managed not to kill any of them a month later.....

 

 

 The roosters are my favorite but they aren't big fans of me, although with time and plenty of hugs they will surely love me. I've already told Conley they will never be dinner because they are my babies and obviously roosters taste terrible. He isn't convinced.  I'm also trying to convince him that the hens will only be egg layers, but I'm guessing at some point they will be dinner so I'm trying not to get too attached.

 

 

 

I dig the chicken farming gig, but maybe that is because they are at Conley's house and not mine. It has been fun watching the chicks grow and the girls have gotten into it too. I usually text Conley every morning and evening to get a chicken report and give my advice. I'm not sure how he would ever do this chicken farming thing without me. Although he has raised chickens in the past, I'm quite sure he has lost all that skill.