It’s hard to believe a year has passed since we picked up these little fluff balls that totally changed our lives. It’s been a year of chicks, ducklings, bantam adoptees, sick birds and eggs gallore. Never have I felt so helpless and so enamored with such tiny little things. I never expected so many life lessons to come from owning chickens. Now, I look back and see all the mistakes we made, things we really couldn’t have learned without learning the hard way. And I would not have traded a moment. Chickens have died, vanished, reappeared, had to be euthanized. Each moment has burned memories and emotions deep into my...
Thoughts After One Year as Chicken Owners
