Story about the chickens

 I think that some of us might have a few chickens to raise. I thought that you might enjoy this story that Fay tells about her mother and raising chickens.

"And mother had a whole mess of chickens, and we couldn't afford but just a little bit of grain. And mother said, "Well, we just can't let them eat it whole because we will be out of grain before spring." So she had this big chicken coop up there and we had a whole mess of potatoes because mother grew potatoes, and we would put them in the root cellar. And so mother would take these potatoes out and put them in a great big pot. Then mother would throw in just so many handfuls of grain with the potatoes. and it was cold in the winter so she would take this and cool it so it would just be warm. And the chickens had to have their warm feed every morning. She would take it out and those chickens would just go crazy. And you know, they layed like everything all winter long, and the other farmer's chickens all went into molts and got cold and all they had was grain. So mother's chickens did just great."

Grandma Mary was very smart and capable. What a challenge she had but she came through with flying colors and is an example to all of us even today.