What came first -- the chicken or the garden?

[DrakeMaiden]

I thought it would be fun to do an unofficial poll. Many of you, if not all, came here from BYC . . . so what came first in your life, your chickens or your garden?

I was gardening for probably 8 years before my interest in gardening brought me into keeping ducks. Now the ducks are an integral part of my life. I never would have imagined.

So how about you?

 

[patandchickens]

Gardens since childhood.

Chickens since last April (in fact, last tuesday was the first anniversary of our chicken-having-ness )... originally only as a utilitarian thing, for eggs, but it turns out they are actually really neat critters so we're getting a bunch more


Pat

 

[Buff Shallots]

Garden. Normal people have gardens. Then some descend into lunacy and get chickens.

 

[Southern Gardener]

Flower gardens first - chickens then veggie garden...

 

[DrakeMaiden]

Thanks for the responses.

I also started with ornamental gardening. It wasn't until I started seriously looking into vegetable gardening that I got excited about poultry.

Buff Shallots -- I prefer to think of it as eccentricity, rather than lunacy.

 

[sunnychooks]

Garden. Normal people have gardens. Then some descend into lunacy and get chickens.

Uh-Oh...


Ummm... I have chickens. The garden is still a fantasy!

 

[NewGuineaChooks]

Both from the time I was a toddler.

 

[Buff Shallots]

Sunnychooks, you indeed started off the deep end. There may be professional help available to you if you want to get sane enough to start a garden.

 

[jmk3482]

I started the insanity of chickens first.

Now I'm moving into gardening. Both flower and vegetable.

I think composting is next.:tools

 

[GardenGirl]

Gardening since I was little, both ornamental and veggie. The chickens started innocently enough for eggs and our friends all thought we were nuts. Well....one just let out her new RIR chicks for the first time this past week and another is looking into which type they want to raise. The insanity is apparently contagious!