CHICKENS!!

So – one of our goals when we ventured into this was to get chickens.

We toyed with it last year but just no time to be properly set up.

Well it turns out that chickens are a lot like children – one is never ready.

I have not been actively looking to add to our herd however when an opportunity presents itself in the form of a beautiful equine that catches my eye – I’ll go take a peek.

Hubs – myself – trusty friend and valued opinion Alicia – and of course my nephew – himself – a rider of great talent packed into my truck today for the hour drive through no man’s land to look at a horse that my nephew’s friends own.

Sadly this lovely young man needs to find a home for this horse due to school and the cost of well keeping one.

I was not interested but would get details and make enquiries – that is until I saw the picture.

It is Little Horse – 15 years younger and my heart skipped a beat.

So I wanted to see him – touch him – look at his feet – his teeth – his eyes – his breathing. To have Alicia ride him – my nephew ride him and for me to see if he would stand for my silliness that I call mounting the horse doing the 7 basic ballet moves and the dismount that should only be scored like Olympic gymnasts.

Hot flash! – apologies.

I won’t lie – the horse has some issues – nothing major and corrective. A little nippy – that can be corrected – a little shy of the mounting block – that is just training – my major concern is his dominance over other horses.

We have a carefully balanced dynamic with two geldings and a mare – sometimes it works – sometimes it does not – we were lucky and it worked.

BUT would it work with another horse – one that has clear issues in that department.

Careful consideration will be applied in this decision.

But what does  this have to do with chickens?

Well – Alicia was/is getting rid of some older laying hens – we wanted bug catchers. So now I have chickens.

Kind of anti climactic.

We have 4 hens and the kickers is this big ass – fuzzy footed colourful rooster – his name is Clyde – he’s pretty cool.

So recap – still don’t know what I will do about the horse BUT now I need to learn how to take care of chickens.

Some other stuff happened this weekend – it was sunny and hot – I rode every day blah blah blah…