{"id":361,"date":"2012-08-02T10:16:25","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T14:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roseshadowranch.com\/?p=361"},"modified":"2012-08-02T10:16:25","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T14:16:25","slug":"happy-anniversary-a-year-in-the-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roseshadowranch.com\/?p=361","title":{"rendered":"Happy Anniversary!!! A Year In The Life…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today is a special anniversary for me (besides being my 15 year wedding anniversary which is also quite special). \u00a0Today marks the 1st anniversary of me raising chickens! \u00a01 year ago today, I went and bought my very first chicken “Grace” a White Delaware, “Grace” as you might recall recently hearing about, has sadly departed us in this world, 2 weeks ago. \u00a0She was an amazing chicken! \u00a0When she first came to live on the ranch, she was only 10 weeks old and extremely shy! \u00a0It wasn’t until after she was an established layer that she became my favorite chicken. \u00a0She would always come running when she heard my feet hit the deck. \u00a0She was my shadow, she followed me everywhere and was always under my feet! \u00a0She was full of personality and would even fly up on my back whenever I was in the run. \u00a0Ok, enough about “Grace” it makes me sad to think about the memories I have with her:*( \u00a04 days after getting “Grace” I went out and got “Midnight” a chicken that I was told was a Red-Laced Wyandotte but later I learned she was actually a Black Sex Link, nevertheless, she is a great bird! \u00a0Grace and Midnight were my only 2 chickens thru the winter, then about mid way thru, a friend introduced me to and gave me my first Serama Bantams, (3) week old chicks which sadly, became just 1 a rooster my 3 year old daughter named “Blackie.” “Blackie” was a house chicken all winter long. \u00a0He became quite fond of my husband, who would go talk to him and “speak his language” quite frequently throughout the day. \u00a0I never intended to keep a rooster, I was always led to believe roosters were loud and mean, but not “Blackie.” \u00a0My children came to really love him (and so did I) so we decided to keep him. \u00a0As he matured, I knew he needed a mate, so my friend who gave me “Blackie” offered up a mate for him, a beautiful golden girl we named “Goldie.” \u00a0This is when “chicken math” took over my life! \u00a0Once those fertile eggs started being laid, I became a “hatch-o-holic, I became completely addicted!!!! \u00a0My 2 chickens became 3 then 4 then\u2026\u2026\u2026.MANY! \u00a0I first started keeping chickens in an attempt to start raising as much of my own food as possible, but now I keep them not only for their eggs, but because I genuinely love them!! \u00a0Who would of thought chickens would make such wonderful, loving, full of personality pets!! \u00a0I relate them to dogs in that sense. \u00a0On the ranch, we now have 1 Black Sex Link, 1 Easter Egger, 1 Buff Orpington, 2 Red Sex Links, 1 Isa Brown, several Seramas, 1 Lavender Ameraucana, 1 Blue Olive Egger, 2 White Silkies, and 2 Ameraucana Bantams. \u00a0I LOVE CHICKENS!!!<\/p>\n

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