Kindness & Chickens…
July 14, 2011
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Some of you might remember when Joel received his Make A Wish that his first idea was a chicken coop with chickens. Well, shortly after I posted about that I received an email from a sweet blogging friend Quinn from Reformation Acres. Her husband and son had been working on a portable chicken coop. They had someone in mind to purchase it but when the sale fell through they offered it to Joel. (Well, our whole family.) Incredible, right!!?!!
One small problem they live in the US and we are in Canada neither of us have passports… and so began the chicken coops grand adventure. It traveled from Ohio to Pennsylvania and then in to New York state. From there friends of mine met up with Quinn and her lovely family who had just spent all day driving, and picked up the coop. They then brought it over the border where the coop stayed at their house for a week or two until we could arrange a time for them to bring it all the way to our house.
Isn’t it a fantastic coop!! You move the coop daily, so instead of having a negative impact on the ground it helps it. We have been having a lot of fun watching them.
We can’t thank Quinn and her family enough. It was incredibly kind of you to think of Joel, and he is so happy with his chickens. Thank you too, to Lisa and Robert for bring it over the border for us. We picked up 3, 9 week old barred rock chickens to start. We are going to add some more chickens later this summer. I am a little worried that we have a cockerel or 2, we are pretty sure one is I am holding out hope that the other 2 are girls:)
Can you tell Joel likes his chickens??
Looks like a rooster to me, what do you think??? Joel named him\ her Sky. The chickens are just one more step closer to living the homestead lifestyle that we are longing to embrace.
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7 Comments
Cooking Up Faith
That is an awesome story!! And those are really pretty chickens! They look like your typical farm chickens you see in magazines! 🙂 I'm so happy for Joel!
RaD
Yep, that'd be a rooster. And I hate to say it but the other two look like they might be following suit.Congrats to Joel, he looks so happy.
Savannah
very cool coop, and very nice that Joel got his chickens..amazing how God works!I hope to one day have chickens, but first we need more land :)Have a great day!
marlece
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE our chickens and LOVE the eggs too!I love that you can move the coop around because it does get nasty if you didn't and it is great fertilizer. Do you ever let them range outside of the coop? We found that they lay better when we let ours out for awhile each day especially in the winter months. Looks like fun, and Joel and these pictures are ADORABLE!
Talkity Christian
hehe – those look like fun!
Louis
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William E. Murdock
A cock bird will have a bump on the inside back of its leg. About an inch and a half above its thumb. ( rear toe) That bump is where the Spurs will come out at about 6 months of age. But the bump will be there a while before the Spurs shows up. ALSO, they usually est heartier, & are larger than the other pullets.