URBAN CHICKENS

With year two of gardening Damien and I have been discussing improvements and enhancements. One thing both of us want to explore is keeping chickens. Chickens are an amazing compliment to any garden as they eat weeds and bugs, fertilize the yard, lay eggs almost every day (that would be great if you eat eggs), and are sweet animals to have in the yard.

Saturday Damien and I decided to stop in at Coastal Farm & Ranch and were so surprised at the extent of gardening supplies they carry. Damien was so happy and said he could spend all day in the store. We stopped and looked at the little chickie babies! Just by luck they were giving a class on raising chickens that afternoon. We went home ate lunch and then returned to to the store for the class. It was great and very informational! Damien and I are definitely interested in getting chickens.

While at home playing around on Facebook Saturday afternoon I heard about a chicken festival happening on Sunday in West Linn. Damien, Sula and I went to the festival today and it was fun, not great but we did get some useful information from the talks. We learned about basic chicken care as well as ways to create an edible chicken garden.

Our plan is to either get 3 grown chickens ready to put in the yard OR get 3 baby chickies and raise them from babies. I have been doing a lot of research on building a chicken coop. We are so excited about getting chickens for the yard :)