Will Work for Food
The new girls in town already have names. The boys named them. Big Fat and Black Jack are New Jersey Giants, Mrs. Peck and Chicken Nugget are Salmon Faverolle, and Ostrich is a Turken, which is named from the word turkey and hen because it is a chicken that looks like a turkey.
We didn’t choose the breeds, just took the last five our supplier had left to sell.
It wasn’t a hard sell because all three breeds are gentle and good with young children and make good pets. They are dual purpose hens, layers that are also broilers (but once they’ve been named, butchering them would be unlikely).
We had chickens from 2012 to sometime in 2017, but they got picked off one by one by hawks, raccoons, wild dogs and bear. We probably wouldn’t have gotten more but the grandsons, who grew up with the first flock, pushed hard for it. We had the infrastructure, and in these uncertain times, we decided a homegrown source of fresh eggs would be a good thing.
The boys collected the day’s just laid eggs and, and I fried them up like Martha Stewart. Liam enjoyed a fried egg from Chicken Nugget, which brings to mind the question of which came first, the chicken or the egg? Bryce worked for his egg, helping his Hopa secure the coop.
Watch the boys help their Hopa put a floor in the coop when they were four and six below.
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April 4th, 2020 1:37 pm
Ah, how lovely for the grandkids, to have chickens and fresh eggs, and to know the connection between raising and harvesting one’s own food – a gift that will last a lifetime. Your place looks wonderful.
April 5th, 2020 2:47 pm
Haha … delightful about the nail. Always great to hear a child ask a question that gets a fulsome, truthful and respectful answer.