Free Range Eggs, Free
August 23, 2007
I posted over at Because Mom Said So about not being a “pet person”. Lately I’ve realized that the hens are a bit like pets though. And here’s the best part:
Free Range Eggs. Free.
It doesn’t get much better than that! Chickens are very low maintenance. There are no shots. No vets. Their feed is cheap, and they also eat some scraps (they LOVE watermelon rinds!) like veggies and bread crusts. And instead of costing money, they give you free food!
To quote Cibo Matto, “I know my chicken. You got to know your chicken.”
I like that I know my chickens. They eat a healthy diet and run around the yard snapping up bugs and worms. Ummmm…. They are happy and loved. Given the fact that breakfast can easily mean 9 eggs each morning in this house, free eggs are a very good thing! The other day the boys collected 21. That’s two whole days worth what with scrambled or fried eggs for breakfast, deviled or boiled eggs for snacks and lunch, omelets….
You know what? Chickens are dumb as all get out but they do have personalities. They like my 6 year old Julien best. He’s our Ov Man. (Like the Love Man. Excuse all the music references for a minute. I’m just in that kind of mood today.) It thrills him to no end when we get a huge egg harvest!
We’re getting benefits of pet ownership like the kids bonding with animals, learning responsibility (they have to be fed and watered, let out of the pen, gathered back in, eggs collected), without all the bad stuff associated with pet ownership like the cost factor, messes in the house, animals not mixing well with babies/toddlers, training the pet, etc.
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Dogs are highly over-rated anyways. I have two and wish I didn’t now. We had them before the kids and now it’s just soooo much more work.
If they were producing something we could eat that might be a different story! lol
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