Category Archives: chickens

13 Chickens

Posted on March 8, 2019 by Don Haynes

For various reasons, chickens became extraordinarily important.  Not long after we moved in that spring, Dad and Mom bought two dozen baby chicks. They put a large cardboard box on the floor of the little shed attached to the house. … Continue reading →

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11 Alcatraz

Posted on November 26, 2018 by Don Haynes

Over time a complicated family economy came into being.  It didn’t really “develop.”  More than anything it simply seemed to happen.  It began with the chickens.  As soon as they were big enough, we began to eat the roosters.  We … Continue reading →

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