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“No, son, I did not.”

“I think Andrea is a Leghorn and Kevin is a Buff Orbington. Buff means orange.”

“Buff means tan.”

“Oh, it looks orange in the picture.”

“Would Kevin match an orange crayon or a tan one?”

“Tan.”

“Then buff means tan.”

“I get it. Do you know a chicken is REALLY sick if it sneezes?”

“No, son, I did not.”

“And if their poop is all white or all black they’re sick. The poop is supposed to be swirled…”

“I got it son. Swirled poop, good. Solid color poop, bad. Next subject, please.”

“Did you know each chicken should have two square feet of space?”

Yeah, I thought we were going to change the subject, but we didn’t. We talked about chickens the whole ride home from school yesterday. I learned more chicken facts than I ever knew in my whole life in the space of a few minutes yesterday afternoon.

And I’m pretty sure I met my chicken-fact quota for life.

But I’m sure I’ll learn a few more today, because he’s only a little way through the Book O’ Chicken Facts I got him for Easter.

I’m not going to say the Easter Bunny brought it. One, he’s too old for it. Two, I brought this upon myself!!!

But you know what?

Jonah is excited about his new critters.

The kind of excited where you can’t read enough, study-up enough….or, OK…..talk enough about it.

Thing is, he’s not waiting for random chicken information to fall from the sky.

He’s reading. He’s studying. He’s spending time with those things! It’s important to him.

Just three weeks ago he knew nothing about raising chickens. Nothing at all.

But when he returned home from a visit to his cousins with two chickens in a cardboard box, he set out to learn, and learn he did.

Kind of like when I was learning this lifestyle. As an obese woman, I knew absolutely nothing.

And I did not wait for the information to come to me.

I read, I listened, I learned, and I applied.

Yes, it was very scary to embark on something I knew absolutely nothing about.

But if I had waited for information to fall from the sky, I’d still be waiting. Y’all know that.

So…what are you waiting for? You have some research to do!

But on the off change you need to know about chicken poop, look no further. I’ll give a pass on the research because I’m your girl in the know.

Just remember, solid is bad. Swirled is good.

Solid bad. Swirled good.

Bet that’ll cure you from getting the free ice at the end of the meal next time!