The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life, sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that binds us all together.

- Erma Bombeck

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Show Chickens

We are now the proud owners of show chickens.  We've had them for about two weeks now and while some of the chicks are easy to tell which breed they are, others are still a mystery.  We got the chicks through Urch Hatchery - as a favor to our poultry 4-H project.  It was a great deal.  We ordered 100 chicks.  He sent us 100 chicks at $2 a piece.  He guaranteed that all chicks would be show quality birds, but that was it.  He got to choose the breeds and it was a straight run.

We shared the chicks with all of our poultry project kids and Z kept eight of his favorites.  Here are two that we can tell will be fun birds for fair.  This first one is most likely a Plymouth White Rock Frizzle.  His/her name is currently Mrs. Frizzle.

Our second favorite is a Naked Neck Red.  Her/his name is Ostrich (for obvious reasons).
Oh, it is so much fun to watch them grow into their breeds.  I love my chickens.
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