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| Kitty is not a fan of the ginormous birds |
Despite all the benefits, there are a few drawbacks to having chickens:
(1) I am too accustomed to always having and never buying eggs. Just a few weeks ago, they were averaging about an egg a day between the three of them. Then it got cold and productivity slowed way down. Now it's been three days and no eggs. What exactly am I supposed to eat for breakfast now? Or what if I want to bake something? Or make some delicious concoction involving fresh mayonaise? Turrible.
(2) I don't mind people bringing me kitchen scraps to feed the chickens. Believe me, I love feeding them old food. But I get these big bags of whole rotten vegetables from other people. Most of the stuff I feed them from my kitchen is just vegetable trimmings, stale chips, or moldy dairy, all of which is manageable. I wish these people would figure out that the chickens would probably really enjoy most of what they've got, except in smaller pieces. And I never feel like chopping other people's rotten vegetables. So they sit in my fridge and take up more space than my own food. It's gross.
(3) Chickens are dumber than a box of rocks. Mine don't even want to be free-range chickens. I spent a good bit of both Saturday and Monday finishing the fence around my backyard so they could come out of their coop. I got a wood pallet to block one side, and fashioned a fence out of zip ties and recycled fence posts. Hours of jerry-rigging later, I finally have a fully fenced in backyard. So yesterday, I open the coop, lure them out with grapes, and they wander around until it's about to get dark and they go and roost in the coop. All is good. 
Do those chickens need a bigger coop?
ReplyDeleteThey don't even have room for a couch!