I love it when someone else makes my point

I just found this on Design Sponge and it relates perfectly to my post about urban chicken husbandry .

It may additionally be profitable to go in advance and provide a few concept to who might be inclined to take care of your birds whilst you are away on excursion, or out late at night time for a soiree or past due-display on the theater. Chickens need care and interest just like another domesticated animal and it?S quite unlikely which you?Ll find someone providing ?Fowl-sitting? Offerings in your area. Make positive you?Ve got a neighbor, or family member, or fellow hen aficionado willing to steward your flock for your absence. Fortunately, we?Ve were given acquaintances and pals alike inclined to lock ?The Ladies? Up when a night meal maintains us from getting home at sundown or a own family tour to Florida or jaunt to San Francisco takes us away for per week or two (a huge variety of predators locate your chickens simply as beautiful as you do, however for extremely one of a kind motives; defend them as a consequence). Find your ace in the hollow and secure it in advance.

That paragraph is aimed at a very specific reader. A reader who's wildly unprepared for the kind of non-emotional decisions that have to be made when it comes to raising livestock. How's that reader going to react when he or she realizes that it's impossible to sex chicks with 100% accuracy? This person's going to order a bunch of chicks and believe it when they are labeled as females. In about three months, this reader's going to realize that 20% of her hens are roosters and they'll need to be dispatched.

It's not like they can be placed up for adoption.

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