Clearly I'm a chicken.

Many of these kids have never experience unconditional love, and our hope is that they will experience this through connecting with the animals... and us :-)I'd like to have enough cash flow coming in from various real estate investments to cover all of our expenses to run and maintain the ranch.I'm not a spring chicken any longer so it's time to get after it!

You are making some great points.To us it is a chicken and egg kind of discussion.

Otherwise, life down on Dysfunctional Farm is great with the flock(s) of chickens, geese, guineas, ducks, sheep .. and in-house dogs cats and rabbits providing much needed relaxation from an increasingly hectic life as a realtor!

I think she has her chickens counted before the eggs hatch.

Don't trust your lender to tell you how much you can afford -- do you remember the line in Ramsey's book about how it's like trusting a fox to tell you how many chickens you have in the henhouse?

You have a chicken that's producing food (A paid off rental house that cash-flows).

My hand writing has been called chicken scratch on multiple occasions but my dad and mom have really beautiful cursive hand writing so I think I will have them compose the letter.

I actually had a tenant who attempted to flush a chicken carcass down the toilet, and another who just threw dirty diapers into the back yard. 

If there was money margin in doghouse's or chicken coops, I would be buying, building, flipping and/or leasing them.