In the Chicago surrounding counties, if you want to see a chicken you go the super market. You have to wander quite a distance before you can have a live chicken. I have raised chickens, but I will have to find ones that bark.
Alexandra, those chickens do sound special, and that honey, I can almost taste it!
David, I know what the cities are like, Ramsey is rural, but not the chicken kind of rural, usually.
WE are seeing more communities allow this. Hopefully it allworks out, but there will be some who are not happy about it!
There really is nothing like farm fresh eggs. But none of my hens have ever been known to spontaneously "crow". That is a hoot. ( no pun intended...yeah right ) I think the heat is getting to me.
Don, chickens and bee hives? That's prety much unheard of around here. I gotta say that I'd love to have a few chickens running around the back yard, as long as the local hawk doesn't take them out. I vote NO for roosters, too.
As long as there isn't a rooster crowing at dawn, I guess I would be okay with that.
Hey Don, love fresh eggs for breakfast but not sure if the rooster would wake me up in time for breakfast.
Don, Sounds like Ramsey is adjusting to the current trends for more grow your own food. This wasn't a year we cooperated, didn't get tomato plants out and keeping chickens safe from the critters might be a problem for us. The honeybees are working our flowers though.
Sometimes I get fresh eggs from a farm I belong to in the summer months. I'd love to have chickens. Don't you need a rooster?
We have never thought about raising chickens here, but the neighbors wouldn't like it, but the racoons would.
OMG...I think those chickens would be my breakfast every day that I hear them crowing at all hours of the night. I don't know who said that they crow at daybreak. They crow when they want to crow!
I noticed the honey title. My son has set up a bee hive on our friend's farm since he is in the bee club in our local 4H. It's fascinating to see how the hive changes to produce honey! We can't wait to taste it.
Don,
How wonderful to have fresh eggs for breakfast. When we lived in Napa one of our dear friends had chickens, and every so often he would gift us with beautiful green shelled eggs from his very special chickens...we love it. I am all for encouraging beehives, as we need them for all the great work they do in assuring our plants blooming. Here in avocado world, they have beehives among the avocado trees. The honey produced is dark like molasses and has a hint of that taste, because of the avocado blossoms. A