@Stacy Tate So as a funny story I grew up in the country with animals. As in my parents (we lived on a farm) thought they should have all the animals - everything from rabbits and chickens to buffalo and deer - and the regular animals too like dogs, cats, horse, ferrett and so much more.... LOL My husband is not an animal person so we were limited by him to the small animals my kids really wanted like hamsters and chinchillas. We ended up with cats finally because we had mice and my son who was afraid of animals finally agreed to the cats - for some reason he is really attached to them. Then my aunt died and we inherited a dog.... so there's that too. My husband got Jersey Giant eggs for my son's class to hatch, and I told him I get to keep them then. Apparently my husband thought they would dissect the eggs at different stages but ... private Catholic school and that wasn't happening. Now a few years later I have around 50 or so chickens, better not to count. I give some away when people lose some and need them, and I've passed some to friends as they wanted to start raising them. Ultimately I'd love to get down to where they all fit in my nicer walk in coop. If I had my way though there would also be horses, goats, and a highland cow. :)