The city farmers at WS are gearing up for summer with a catalog just chocked full of chicken coops, egg crates and baskets, bee keepers supplies, they have a whole line of goodies for the gentleman/lady farmer ;o
It's enough to make this old(er) country girl chuckle. The younger generation will read this and dream of chickens in their back yard, cute little birds with feathers and fresh eggs, sounds good doesn't it? Even hubby has been trying his darndest to talk my daughter-in-law, Deanna, who is a total sucker for any kind of animal, into a chicken coop. Deanna's on board, John, however, isn't such an easy touch. But why I'm laughing at the idea of all of these people buying chickens and supplies is that they don't realize how nasty chickens are.
First of all, they poop everywhere, including on their eggs. And they don't want you to take their eggs from them, they will peck you! And cleaning dried chicken poop off the eggs can be pretty cky. And chickens are prone to lice, they get hot spots that they scratch and bleed, they lose their feathers, and when it gets hot, oh do they smell!
Of course Williams Sonoma isn't promoting any of this, but if you've spent anytime around chickens, you know what I'm talking about. And I haven't even touched on roosters, who can be downright vicious, and did I mention that they have spurs, and will use them on you if they feel threatened. And they crow, loudly at sunrise! And bees? Oh my, you have to really know what you're doing or they will swarm you and sting you mercilessly. And then they will go to your neighbors and sting them. Yikes!
And that's what I'm smiling about today, the fact that WS can market just about anything, attach pretty pictures and hefty price tags and people fall for it. Here's a link to the catalog if you want to take a peek...
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