Poultry 101 class......

Since there won't be a Brookshires grocery store just down the street from me in Arba Minch-or fast food take-out either, I figured that I better learn how to embrace a bit of pioneer-style living and learn how to raise chickens! If I can't learn how to cook Ethiopian dishes, at least we can always eat eggs!

So I enlisted the help of my good friends Susan and Joyce and went to my first day of 'chicken school'. I brought my notebook and a prop to learn chicken anatomy with. As Susan's husband Bill was quick to point out-"Teresa, that's not a chicken-that's a duck!" ANOTHER reason why I need chicken school....Anyway, Joyce grew up on a farm in Minnesota (another reason to like her!)

and she knows all about feeding, egg laying and neck wringing! (actually, she explained a quicker method, but for those of you who are squeemish at heart, and not to offend any PETA people out there in blogdom-I will leave that method up to your imagination!) She then went on to describe plucking and cooking. I think we will just stick to eating eggs!!