You met the darnest people @ Tractor Supply!

Chickens are a little more popular then people think.  There were no pullets left at Tractor Supply on Good Friday.  But why am I not panicking... I met Dawn S, from Ft Calhoun, NE and she raises Americanas (my Easter Eggers).  Sometimes I think it is fate when I meet people, she was there buying an Easter rabbit and was not very interested in the chicks.  Casually looked at the straight run chicks they had... that's all it took.  She lives on a farm; raises ducks, chickens, goats and has a white peacock (I really don't remember all the animals she said she had - couldn't get pass the fact she had chickens).  The thing that struck me the most about her was the fact that she looked happy to live on a farm and didn't look like she lived on a farm.  A modern "country" woman.  Sounds wierd to be that superficial about the way a person looks, but it does amaze me how people visualize country as "Little House on the Prairie" or old grandma's.  We are a decade into the new millenium, country doesn't equal frumpy, tacky or poor and old.  But anyway - another good connection made at TSC!

Because I didn't actually know where Fort Calhoun was located; I looked it up on Google map.  Really not that far from Omaha - just north on Hwy 75.

So after disappointed about not getting the chicks for Easter, I'm revising/ extending my plan one month because in May, Dawn plans on brooding (hatching) a flock of chicks... not really sure what you call a group of baby chicks.  So, now with the extra time I'm going to save more money, double check all of the equipment, make sure the coop is exactly what the chickens need while making it "very pretty" and get all of the 4-H stuff in order.  Meaning I will continue to give updated on the pre-chick stuff for a little while longer.