Every farm wife used to raise chickens, a farm without a henhouse was a very
unusual. Even up until around 30 years some peeps still kept chickens, in
talking to some older relatives from "back home" (downstate Illannoy)
practically no one regularly raises chickens. A few kids in 4-H do
apparently raise them to show at county fairs...these are often more like
pets instead of a meat food source...'course everybody likes fresh eggs.

I have memories as a little kid (late 50's) of mom chopping the heads off of
chickens so's we could have chicken for dinner, I'm sure many of us of a
"certain age" do. Frankly, I can't imagine such a thing now, PETA and other
do-gooders would have the mom up for charges for "terrorising" the little
kids as a result of the bloody carnage...!!!

I know Our Very Own Chatty Cathy here raises fowl, but who else, or do you
know anyone who does?


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Best
Greg

"The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other
people's money."~~~~Margaret Thatcher