UNIQUE GIFT THAT INSPIRES A NEW ADVENTURE

I never posted about this, lost track of the pictures and when I found them the other day, I thought I'd share.  For my birthday, one of my coworkers gave me a bag filled with all my favorite healthy snacks.  That was really sweet.  Then, at the bottom of the bag, I saw this...

A carton of a 1/2 dozen eggs (in an awesomely decorated carton I might add).  I laughed and said "yeah, in this day and age, eggs can be a great gift for sure!"

Then she said to open up the carton and see them!

Whoa!  REAL farm fresh eggs she got when she went out of town to visit some relatives in the country.  

They are from different varieties of hens, almost like real Easter eggs, ha.  I really loved the olive green one and 2nd Man liked the speckled one.

Of course, they were delicious and the yolks were deep orange color and just beautiful.  

As fate would have it, we went to Tractor Supply shortly thereafter and they had their semi-annual baby chicks for sale.  We must have stood there staring at them for fifteen minutes and on the ride home, decided that it was time to start going down that path toward chicken ownership and egg gathering.

For example, these are the varieties they had.  We will have to do our research on best breeds for our climate, which have an easy temperament, etc. We figured three seemed like a good number.  That would provide about a dozen eggs a week (in a good laying season of course).  Enough to use for baking/cooking and giving away to friends/coworkers.

Then, we went to YouTube and down that rabbit hole, or should we say, down that chicken coop hole, ha, and watched a ton of videos!

So many ideas out there but we like the look of something like this.  Definitely will have to be red with white trim but maybe a walk-in style would be better.

We are of course, still getting ideas, and while it won't be this year obviously, our goal is to plan it now, get it all figured out ahead of time and next year, we may finally have some chickens out here on the farm.

First up: location/location/location, ha.

We have several great books in our library of gardening and farm books so we're reading now and learning what we can.