I put an ad on Tradio looking for giveaway chickens or roosters, and I was inundated with calls. 

The inflated price of chicks competed with the inflated price of eggs this Spring, so instead of buying chicks, I waited. Perhaps someone would have extra chickens in the Fall.

They did. After our homeschool group on a Tuesday, I took my kids with me to a local farm where a very nice couple met us and allowed us to catch twenty of their chickens. We loaded them in our minivan and took them ho...