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 Buy your school teacher a few Araucana (Easter Egg birds) pullets next spring and in six months, you'll have the colored eggs you dream of! |
I'll see how well we get on in the next few months - at present I think it would creep her out a bit
ETA - have just looked up Araucana and found a place that supplies them. I may subtly court Mrs G all through the Spring term so that a present becomes a natural consequence of friendship...
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Do you have a garden? If so, why not get yourself a few pullets (yes, they come in the mail!) and have at it? Chickens don't take up much room at all, they eat just about anything, and they're so interesting to watch - cheap relaxation/meditation plus delicious, pretty eggs!
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Mum said if she had her time again she'd have kept chickens. They look after them at a number of housesits and she loves them.
They would be wrong for this neighbourhood though - too noisy for our packed-together houses and gardens.