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Welcome to Swampy Acres Farm Chicken Page! You probably landed here due to the fact I have had to reroute some of my homepage traffic to this spot. It would appear my "chicken sound effect" (which lasts all of two seconds) on the homepage is particularly annoying to some of our sponsors and advertisers.... so here you go (and no I won't take it off the homepage). Anyway, please feel free to cruise around with the chickens or navigate back to home page using the flash menu to the left. We have lots more to see here besides chickens! Why chickens? Since I live in the middle of nowhere and have no neighbors in sight, I thought it would be fun to have some farm animals. So I went down the list: Horses = Expensive to buy, Expensive to keep, and live 20 years, produce nothing Cows = (see horses), except produce milk.. which is a nightmare to harvest Pigs = Cheap to buy, moderate to keep, live 7 years... and you can only have two in my town (more than that is considered a"piggery"), produce nothing, but you can eat them (no thanks) Sheep = Moderate to buy, Moderate to keep, live about 10 years, produce wool, but not enough to do anything with. Goats = Moderate to buy, Cheap/Moderate to keep, live about 10 years, produce milk (again nightmare to harvest). (Note: Eventually decided to get some goats... see goat page). Chickens = Cheap to buy, Cheap to keep, live about 7 years, produce eggs that are easy to harvest. So, I don't feel like going broke paying two grand a year to feed a horse... chickens are cheap and they don't live too long.. and they are not too fussy... so that is where I started. |
