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"A month into our stay, we'd managed to dispatch most of our charges. We performed the chickens. Among the cats disappeared, plainly disgusted with our urban ways. And Blessed [the cow] was escaping almost daily. It seemed we didn't have a lot of a expertise for farming. And we still got eleven months going." Antonia Murphy, in ways, is an unlikely farmer. Given birth to and bred in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, she spent a lot of her life as a liberal urban cliché, and her interactions with the pet kingdom rarely extended past dinner. But then she became a mother. So when her eldest boy was created with a exceptional, mysterious hereditary condition, she and her spouse, Peter, chose it was a chance to slow down and find a supportive community. Therefore the Murphys shifted to Purua, New Zealand - a rural area where most residents managed private farms, filled with chickens, goats, and (this being New Zealand) sheep. The effect was a comic disaster, and when one day their son got a medical crisis, it was also a bit terrifying. Dirty Chick chronicles Antonia's first time of life as an artisan farmer. Having bought in to the myth that farming is a peaceful, gratifying endeavor that allows one to commune with character and live just how humans were meant to live, Antonia soon understood that the reality is far dirtier and way more disgusting than she ever truly imagined. Among the things she learned the hard way: Cows are inclined to a number of serious colon illnesses, goat mating involves an astounding amount of urine, and roosters are complete and unredeemable assholes. But for all its traumas, Antonia quickly embraced plantation life, getting drunk on homemade wine (it doesn't cause hangovers!), making mozzarella cheese (except for the cat locks, it's a greatly satisfying hobby), and nurturing an infant lamb (that was addictively pretty until it grew into a sheep).
