Chicken Swap round 1

Well, we hit up the chicken swap at Earthdog Denver through the Denver Urban Homesteading organization. It was awesome. There were at least 6 different vendors from different farms with chicks as little as 3 days old all the way up to full grown chickens. There were bunnies, goats and a llama that rode in a jeep. The kids were in heaven.We're going to their Chick Festival on April 6th in hopes of finding our new flock. We're going to go with 4-5 chicks, anticipating that all won't survive, although if they do, we've been told that they'd be a piece of cake to sell online. We've decided on Easter Eggers (Americaunas) for sure and then hopefully a silver or gold laced Wyandotte or a Buff Orpington. I've researched a ton and these seem to be the nicest mix of beautiful eggs and friendly with kids. Hopefully we're right!

After the swap I discovered the best Margarita in Denver at El Noa Noa. How have I lived here for 16 years and never realized that they had such a delicious Gold Marg?? It was a nice sidetrack to the day for sure. Then we continued on to our chicken class at Denver Urban Homesteading. The instructor, Jennifer Loyd, was an amazing wealth of knowledge on all things chicken. She has an urban farm in Lakewood, Co and is also in her first week of her own blog Idlewild Urban Farm. She is much more looking for her blog to be a resource sharing forum with less pontification than I plan to do here. Anyhoo. Jennifer has years of experience under her belt and was eager to share all of it. I was pleased to hear that she also utilizes the deep litter method of poo control/composting. She had great info on predator proofing your coop as well, which is something I needed more of. The class was $36 and was totally worth it. You can register for them at Denver Urban Homesteading. After 2 hours of chatting, we walked across the street to an urban farm with roosters and chickens and met this guy:

It was the highlight of my day.