Journal #21

If I had a choice between a horse, a cow, and a dozen chickens, I would choose a dozen chickens. I would choose a dozen chickens because if so, I could have them mate, and have more chickens to eat for meat, plus the eggs that they lay. Also after I have about another dozen full grown chickens, I could trade some chickens for a horse for travel and a cow for milk. Going with a dozen chickens in the long run makes sence, it enables you the ability to have trading materials, ontop of a better standard of living for your family. You would have to give it time for your chickens to have babies, and once you raise them and they are healthy, you can trade them for the other animals that you need. Maybe you could even trade them to someone in desperate need for a house, or a farm who knows! People are always desperately looking for a particular item, looking to give more then fair deals for them.