About Greenery Ridge
They call it Chicken Math
By Bonnie Gruenberg, owner of Greenery Ridge since 2016
According to the Chinese zodiac, 2017 was the Year of the Rooster, or more specifically, the year of the “fire chicken”. Evidently, the stars were aligned and lighting the way for me to turn our farmette into a Greenery Ridge Fine Fowl. My husband Alex saw it differently. He didn’t want me to have chickens at all. He grudgingly agreed a small group of hens in the spring of 2017. My chicken fever started in winter as I read exhaustively about breeds, coops, waste management and diseases, happily sharing my discoveries with Alex and planning for my 5 hens. His patience grew thinner and thinner until he snapped “Do what you want, just don’t tell me about it!”.
Unfortunately for him, I saw his withdrawal from chicken world as permission to invoke my inner farmer. Years of my high school Future Farmers of America training surged from its dormant slumber. Soon I had baby chicks emerging from 3 incubators and several dozen chickens of several rare breeds hunting grasshoppers in the yard. As we entered our third year of raising rare breed poultry on a small scale, I became certified as a poultry technician and started taking our beautiful, personable Seramas to shows. Alex has been generous of his time and talent despite his disinterest in chickens. He built several safe coops and runs to thwart the inevitable predators.
That said, we have cut wayyyy back on breeding. It was just taking too much time to get everyone fed before hurrying off to my 24 hour midwifery shifts. We are a small backyard operation that focuses on quality rather than quantity. We breed primarily to bring our own flock closer to the APA/ABA standard. You might try my friend Katie at Racing Feathers Farm- she has great birds, and she does ship. https://www.racing-feathersfarm.com/
They call it chicken math. If you plan for 2 chickens, you will end up with 5, because they are so awesome. If you plan for 8, you will end up with 20. As for me, when people ask me how many chickens I have, I generally do not have a number to give them. You can count them yourself at our website: http://www.toomanychicks.com
SORRY, local sales only --we are not NPIP certified for shipping.
They call it Chicken Math
By Bonnie Gruenberg, owner of Greenery Ridge since 2016
According to the Chinese zodiac, 2017 was the Year of the Rooster, or more specifically, the year of the “fire chicken”. Evidently, the stars were aligned and lighting the way for me to turn our farmette into a Greenery Ridge Fine Fowl. My husband Alex saw it differently. He didn’t want me to have chickens at all. He grudgingly agreed a small group of hens in the spring of 2017. My chicken fever started in winter as I read exhaustively about breeds, coops, waste management and diseases, happily sharing my discoveries with Alex and planning for my 5 hens. His patience grew thinner and thinner until he snapped “Do what you want, just don’t tell me about it!”.
Unfortunately for him, I saw his withdrawal from chicken world as permission to invoke my inner farmer. Years of my high school Future Farmers of America training surged from its dormant slumber. Soon I had baby chicks emerging from 3 incubators and several dozen chickens of several rare breeds hunting grasshoppers in the yard. As we entered our third year of raising rare breed poultry on a small scale, I became certified as a poultry technician and started taking our beautiful, personable Seramas to shows. Alex has been generous of his time and talent despite his disinterest in chickens. He built several safe coops and runs to thwart the inevitable predators.
That said, we have cut wayyyy back on breeding. It was just taking too much time to get everyone fed before hurrying off to my 24 hour midwifery shifts. We are a small backyard operation that focuses on quality rather than quantity. We breed primarily to bring our own flock closer to the APA/ABA standard. You might try my friend Katie at Racing Feathers Farm- she has great birds, and she does ship. https://www.racing-feathersfarm.com/
They call it chicken math. If you plan for 2 chickens, you will end up with 5, because they are so awesome. If you plan for 8, you will end up with 20. As for me, when people ask me how many chickens I have, I generally do not have a number to give them. You can count them yourself at our website: http://www.toomanychicks.com
SORRY, local sales only --we are not NPIP certified for shipping.
