they're here

We’ve been talking for a long time about welcoming chickens into our family. Today I got online looking for, you know, chicken stores. Yup, chicken stores. I typed in “Portland Oregon chicken store” as a google search and up popped a place called Urban Farm Store. We thought we’d take a drive over and check it out. They had five or six brooders full of five or six different kinds of chickens all about 3 days old. Chickens is pretty much what they do: chicken food, chicken bedding, chicken lamps, chicken information and, of course, chickens. Turns out they’ve only been open for two weeks. We got to talking to the guy (Robert) and about 20 minutes later we walked out of there with all the supplies for three three day old chickens as well as the chickens themselves. There’s a Rhode Island Red that I’ve named Calliope, the yellow is a Light Brahma that Naiya named Jak (despite the fact that she and the others are, hopefully, all girls) and the black is a Barred Plymouth Rock that Ryan has yet to name (although Naiya keeps wanting to call her Jim). We know nothing about raising chickens obviously but we’re embracing the challenge. Ryan has a splendid plan going for their coop and six weeks to build it before they’re large enough to move outside. Stay tuned...