Money for Nothing and the Chicks for Free?
January 20, 2008|Comments (none)
Originally we planned to go to the Lee County Flea Market on Saturday but the weather failed to cooperate. This meant that Nancy and Paul were on the road when Tia Julie, Amber, Heather, Josh, and I left for the market today. We weren’t even sure that anyone would have booths set up since it was so bitterly cold but it was worth a shot. We arrived to find a handful of booths and a man selling chickens, pot-bellied pigs, rabbits, and game birds. What luck! He just happened to have with him three lovely Rhode Island Reds (brown egg layers) which we have named Zsa Zsa, Eva, and Magda (after the Gabor sisters). The man was very nice. Tia Julie and I couldn’t stop looking at this little pair of bantams. They were precious! The man selling them took them out of the cage and held them for us to see. Both birds snuggled up against the man’s coat and were obviously quite used to being handled. Tia Julie asked Josh if she could buy them so that when Tio Raul came to visit, we would have cuddly & beautiful birds for him to bond with. Josh happily agreed. Tio Raul will name the darling bantams (pictured at the top of the page) soon. We are confident that he will pick names to match their gentle nature as he is quite good with that sort of thing!
Here are two of our Gabor sisters in the coop:
Chickens are not for the casual investor in these parts! The Rhode Island Reds were $10 each and the bantams were considerably more than that! But that’s the going rate and these were the best looking birds we’ve seen yet. They are plump, well-feathered, brightly colored, and healthy looking. It was also very nice to see that they had been handled from chicks and were not fearful of us. In fact, they enjoy company! This evening, after we said goodbye to Tia Julie and Amber (who we adore), Josh and I went out to check on the birds. I held the tiny bantam hen in my arms like a baby and she nestled into my fleece jacket like she’d been there her whole life. I just can’t tell you how that made us feel… to be holding our own chickens on our own property in front of the chicken coop which we built with our own hands.
In honor of our Gabor Sisters:
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