Baby chicks... Turned into chickens in 2011

I dont remember if I shared this on the blog or not.. but a few weeks after Zane was born, Shaleen and I decided to take all the kids to the country store and buy baby chicks. We thought it would be so fun and cute. It was for the first few hours.





I bought two chicks and shaleen bought two. Ours were Little miss muffet ( the one with the poof on her head) and Botwin (the brown one)

Shaleen had Batman and Frenchi.

Allen was less than amused.

The chicks lived in a little box in the corner of the garage. And then a Bigger box.. and a bigger box... and then the biggest box we could find.
Then .. shaleen decided she didnt want hers anymore. So they came to live with ours. Allen was finally on board and decided that if we were going to do this, we should have enough to produce all the eggs we would need. So he bought two more.
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6 chickens. All grew up in our garage. Then they got too big. We decided to let them live in the dog run and sleep in the dog house. We set it up like a little coop and there they stayed all summer.




Well, once they were living outside, we quickly found out that little miss muffet was actually Mr. Muffet. We had a rooster. He wasnt horribly annoying to us, we couldnt really hear him from inside the house, but im sure the neighbors were annoyed. Not to mention, we didnt have a permit for chickens anyway.

I finally just ended up getting sick of feeding them and not getting any eggs. We went on some family vacations and had to find babysitters to come feed them and it was just annoying. Allens friends from work came and took them home to their kids as pets, and the next week they started laying. Lame huh.

Well.. they only took the hens, the rooster was stuck with us for a few more weeks until we talked Kayla Bangerter into driving him up to a farm. haha. Oh dear.
And that was the end of the chickens.