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RE: How Many Eggs Will Your Backyard Chickens Lay?
This is a well done post that I see hits home with the one's who keep hens and for others like me who grew up with them in one fashion or another. I have fond memories of my Granny and her hens. We even had ducks at one point. Nothin' better than fresh, organic eggs from Granny. Lot's of very kool memories for me. I still have the buttons she gave me of the big rattle snake she beheaded with a shovel that made its way into the coup one afternoon. I miss her. One of her favorite sayings was " Mad as a wet hen." Thanks for the post and the walk down memory lane. I look forward to more from you.
hhahaha mad as a wet hen is a great saying. Sometimes one of my chickens goes around squaking really loud as if she was mad, but I dunno if it was because she was wet lol.
Hahaha mad as a wet hen! Too funny...I'm going to have to use that one! My grandmothers both grew up with chickens, but they were considered 'poor', so they desperately wanted to get away from that image. My one grandmother thinks it's odd that I grow vegetables, and can, and keep chickens. Something she saw as a necessity growing up in North Dakota is now a fashionable thing to do.