Bartering with Mavis – How to Barter For Food

Yesterday, my friend Heather dropped by with her two kids.  Heather and her husband are in the process of building an urban chicken coop, and when she asked me last week where she could find some chickens, I offered to barter with her.

I ended up trading her 3 of our chickens, for $30 in Oroweat Bakery Outlet certificates.

30 loaves of bread for 3 chickens?  Heck Ya I’ll take that barter!

Even though our freezer is currently full of bread, the certificates she traded me are good until the end of the year.  So if I play our cards right, between the bread we picked up last week and the new certificates, we should be good in the bread category for the next six months.

Now of course you know The Girl Who Thinks She’s a Bird wasn’t going to let go of any of her birds unless she was assured of getting more, right? So this morning we trekked on down to the Garden Sphere in Tacoma, and pick up 3 new chickens.

• Buffy –  Golden Buff Chicken
• Martha –  Barred Rock
• Blondie – Barred Rock

We have had such luck introducing chickens {of all shapes and ages} into our flock this year, that we decided to go ahead and let them in with the older birds and bantams.  So far so good.  Black Fatty has taken quite a liking to the little ones.

I’m beginning to think I should have named The Girl Who Thinks She’s a Bird, The Chicken Whisperer.  I’m not sure what she tells them, but man she’s good.

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