Photo: Courtesy of Poor Girl Gourmet

This pithy phrase, one we all know well, applies perfectly to what blogger Amy McCoy, a.k.a. Poor Girl Gourmet, describes in a new post. She’s been raising chicks at home, you see, with her enthusiastic husband, both of them fully prepared to raise those chicks into chickens and turn those chickens into dinner.

It ain’t easy. Though not for lack of trying, or for lack of caring for these constantly moving, fluffy little guys. Read through Amy’s informative, consumately entertaining post, and you’ll get a dose of reality. In her words, this write-up is “…not for the faint of heart, but it is all part of the reality of raising your own meat.” Wild animals be damned.