On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 11:24:15 AM UTC-4, Jill McQuown wrote:

> I'm told Grandma Mac raised a few chickens. Seems odd in the middle of
> a small town with no land to speak of. But hey, it was the Depression.
> No one really cared about town ordinances about farm animals. Gotta eat.

My great-grandmother raised chickens in her yard in Berkley, MI. It's
a "suburb" now, but at the time it was a small town a few miles outside
Detroit. This would have been in the 1930s or 1940s.

Raising chickens in town is fashionable again.