"Gregory Morrow" > wrote in message
...
> 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?
>
>
> --
> Best
> Greg
>
> "The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other
> people's money."~~~~Margaret Thatcher
>
>

We have 5 Bantams - all hens, for eggs. Had a previous 4 but a fox or two
got in through a hole in the fence.
Didn't hear it, which was lucky for the fox.