Thursday, July 3, 2008

The Chicken and the Egg

Chickens. These are the ultimate in self sufficient farm animals. If you've ever thought of raising poultry or farm animals you can click here. Growing up my mom and dad kept 10 to 20 chickens in a coop on the back of our property. My dad would plant a row of corn to feed them and we kids would grind the corn using a hand grinder to make feed.

What did this do? Well, for the initial cost of investment we got all the free eggs we ever wanted. Add a rooster to the mix and you never have to buy another chicken. Problem with roosters is that you'll find out that cockle-doodle-doo thing is not just in cartoons! Yep, they do it at dawn too if you're a late sleeper.