The Chicken Mom! [American English Listening‪]‬ Unexpected English!

[EP87] Hi everybody, and welcome to Episode 87 of Unexpected English, the podcast where you can listen to some real American English in just five minutes, and maybe have some fun while you do it. At least I hope it's fun. Let's find out! Remember, there is a transcription in the show notes if you need any help understanding what was said, because these are interviews with real people. That's why it's real American English. Okay? All right, let's go!
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So I was walking down the street in my neighborhood, looking around, and I happen to look... and I spotted what appeared to be, like a chicken condominium. I'm gonna say I'm gonna call it a chicken condominium because it's two stories tall. And it says... fluffy butt, what?
Yes. My kids thought that was cute. Yeah.
Okay, so I'm talking to the lady who owns the chicken condominium.
Yes. It used to be a little child's play house in our backyard, but...
You got rid of the kids and decided...
Yeah, exactly.They just didn't play with it anymore. So we decided to make other use of it.
And why did you decide to go with chickens?
You know, that was, honestly, that was my husband's idea. When the pandemic first started, he had a little extra time on his hands and thought that it would be cool, especially since the city recently approved having backyard chickens in San Diego
Yeah, because we're in the city, you know? What's up with having... I mean, this isn't... this isn't you know, you can't have... Maybe you CAN have goats, I don't know.
I don't know about that either.
But you can have chickens!
Yes, you can now.
And there's a real advantage. Why don't you tell us what that is?
Um, well, you know, recently there was a supply shortage of eggs at the store. But uhOh yeah, eggs are high now!
Eggs are still higher in price. Yeah. And so now we can just walk right out to the backyard and pluck them out of the chickens nests and have some fresh eggs! They're, they're free range. They're not caged chickens.
Yeah, I see they've got a whole little playground back there.
Yeah, yeah, it's huge area that they get to roam and look for bugs and whatnot.
And how many chickens do you have?
Five, plus a little rooster.
Okay, so there you go, people. We've got five chickens. And one little rooster here, right in the middle of San Diego.
And they they each produce one egg every day. So we can have five eggs a day if we wanted to.
Oh, that's what they, they like...they drop an egg every day.
Yep, pretty much and then, that's that's only for the first five years of their life. So after that, we're just going to be keeping them as pets.
Oh after that, they get to retire, huh?
Yeah, basically.
So do they all have names?
They do.
Could you tell us the name? 
Sure. A lot of them are based on colors. So we have an Orange and a Gray and a Red and a Peach. And then there's Minnie and Baldy. Baldy's the one that has... uh, she's lacking feathers on her neck.
Okay, so basically you went with the identification names, not the.. Okay.
All right. Well, anything else we should know? If I decide okay, I'm gonna, I'm gonna get myself some chickens and do this. What do I need to know?
Well, they need a chicken coop, so a place to, kind of, be protected from predators and the elements. Ah chicken run is good to for that same reason and they can... um, on rainy days, for example, they'll go in there and that's where they do their dirt baths and they eat.
Okay, so it rains so they go in and watch TV and take a dirt bath.
Yeah, that's how they keep themselves clean. It's kind of fun to watch. Really. I mean, they dig, they dig a little hole in the ground and then they lay down in it and kind of fluff their feathers around and get dirt all over. And then they shake it off.
Alright, well, okay, that sounds, that sounds interesting too, you learn so many things that you never knew before.
Yeah, I do a lot of the work.
OK, well, thank you very much for you time!
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