Raising chickens is something my wife and I have wanted to do for quite some time but our current neighborhood has a no chicken policy in the covenants.  We were first introduced to the idea of raising chickens by two different co-workers and friends of mine back around 2008.  Both of them were raising chickens in their backyards and taught us a little about the basics of raising chickens.  Our interest was heighten this summer when we visited my sister in VA.  My sister’s family raises chickens in their backyard and our kids got to spend some time interacting with them.  It seems like everywhere we go we bump into people raising their own chickens or selling custom chicken coops.  Even Williams Sonoma sells chicken coops now!

We plan to blog about our chickens someday when we finally move to our homestead but for now I will just leave you with a picture from our summer trip to VA that captures how much fun our boys had hanging out with the chickens: