Miche wrote:
> In article >,
> "Gregory Morrow" > wrote:
>
>
>> 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?
>>
>
> I know two people who have backyard chickens. One of whom just
> dispatched two young roosters for the pot last week, as it happens.
>
> Miche


My mother keeps a rooster around; she believes it makes the chickens lay
more eggs.


Becca