And then there were 13
Monday Apr 14, 2008
On Friday the kid's elementary school PTA held its annual carnival. One of the attractions was a petting zoo. They had goats, piglets, rabbits and chickens.
Karen has been trying to figure out what to do with one our young roosters, Harry, who was hatched out in early January. He's acting more and more like a rooster, and is getting a bit unpleasant to be around. Also, living in a suburban neighborhood, we think sure the neighbors might get annoyed with hearing a rooster in the early morning, so we've always intended to get rid of our roosters. Karen had posted a "free rooster" note on a pet chickens web site, but got no interest. The next alternative was to take him up to the feed store and give him away.
Anyway, back to the petting zoo. Karen asked the petting zoo owner if she'd take a Rhode Island Red rooster, and she said she would. So Karen got our rooster and took him over there.
Our son Nick was upset and said he was going to miss Harry, but hasn't talked that much about him since then, so maybe he won't miss him that much. He still has 9 other chicks, 4 hens, 3 cats, a brother and mom and dad on which to shower his affection, so maybe that's enough :).
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