We hatched our own chickens this year. Then Rick went to the store and found us some meat chickens on clearance at Agway so he brought them home too. We are swarming in poultry.

We have an old truck cap in the yard that we are using for a peep portable coop.

We are going to put some wheels on it with a handle to make it easier to move around the yard. It will keep the peeps really warm and give them fresh grass and sunlight everyday. They are easily picked off by predators so this will keep them safe also.

Here are the peeps in the truck cap. (recycle, recycle, recycle) It is not your accessories that are useful and could save your life.... it is the junk!

You may think it is cute we are raising chickens BUT let me tell you: it is more than cute. It is necessary. The cost of food is outrageous. They are using hormones, steroids and medications in our animals that are for food. Not to mention they feed them genetically modified foods. It is no joke-- we are practically guinea pigs because we don't know what the ramifications of these ways of raising animals will be. Not to mention that normal commercial operations raise animals in totally unhumane and sick ways. I want to eat chicken that can walk and is healthy. I don't want to eat sick animals that are only alive because of the medication they are feeding it. Folks this is sick. Raise the animals yourself, go vegetarian or get them from a local grower. But then maybe you like your Walmart sheet meat!!!! Or maybe you like to eat the dead rats and fecal matter that is mixed in with your ground beef. (they don't have time to stop the production line to get the stuff out). Tumors on animals? Yum. Chicken that has to have a part of it's beak cut of at birth for your eggs and meat (we can't have them pecking each other). Want to go eat a burger? Go ahead, save 50 cents and some time by shopping at your local grocery store and shut the little guys down.

Next month we are selling our turkey poults and maybe some chicks. The month after that I plan on selling Chukars, Quails and maybe some Ringneck Pheasants. 

We will be keeping the Guineas we are going to hatch. Guineas eat tons of bugs and LIKE TICKS! They only eat the bugs above ground so they don't tear up the landscape like chickens. You can eat the eggs although they are a bit smaller than chicken eggs. It takes about 2 eggs to equal a large chicken egg. Guineas also kill snakes. Are you sold on Guineas now too?