Goodbye chickens!

So, we've known since September that we would be moving to Georgia.  We first planned to move in January, but that plan didn't work out (I'm actually grateful it didn't!  It's so much nicer to move in the spring!).  So, here we are, in the midst of our last week in our home.  Amongst other things, we sold the chickens this week on Craigslist.  We got so many responses to the ad in the first hour after posting that I had to remove the post so I didn't get phone calls/texts all day long!  I think we found the right person to buy them- she has a great 4 acre yard for them to be free-range and a very spacious coop for them.  She has been so kind and even sent pictures of the chickens in their new home so the kids could see that they were doing well.  Emma, the main care-taker of the chickens, has really had a rough time leading up to saying goodbye.  The chickens really are her good friends!  She has been praying for a couple weeks that they will go to the right home, so no doubt that is how the right person found our ad.  There were tear shed as we watched the buyer drive away.
We took pictures the afternoon the chickens left as a last reminder.  Emma is ready to get hers printed and framed. 
The chickens have been a wonderful experience for our family.  Raising them from chicks has been so much fun!  Believe it or not, the moving company will move the chicken coop to Georgia!  So, we are taking it with us and plan to get more chickens out there. 

Here are the final farewell pictures:

One of the pictures we posted to sell the flock

Another

Another



One of the last times getting water for the chickens.  They were thirsty that morning and followed Emma over to the hose.

The chickens in our yard.

Grant and Charly

Another one with Charly- because Grant looks so cute!

Arianna with Brownie and Beakea

Emma with Blacky, Flower, and Peepy

Emma and Peepy

Arianna with Beakea and Brownie again.

Grant with a flapping Puffy

Spending time with the chickens on the last day

Grant with Charly and Puffy

Again

He was really hamming it up!

 

He did not want to say goodbye to his chicken!

Emma and Flower

We had chicken pot pie for dinner the night we said good bye to the chickens (ironic, eh?) 

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