Chickens

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#99CC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0728dfc3.jpg"> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0888e900.jpg" border=0 width="142" height="144" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="08a8e710.jpg" border=0 width="142" height="113" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="08c8e890.jpg" border=0 width="142" height="137" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> </td> <td valign="top" width="100%" BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0738dfc3.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Free Range Farm">Home</A>   <A HREF="history.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="History">History</A>    <A HREF="cotton_cattle_gardening.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Cotton, Cattle, Gardening">Cotton, Cattle, Gardening</A>     Chickens   <A HREF="5generations.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Five Generations">Five Generations</A>    <A HREF="currentnews.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Current News">Current News</A>     <A HREF="sydney.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Its a Girl!!!">It's a Girl!!!</A>    <A HREF="cameron.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Its a Boy!!!">It's a Boy!!!</A>       <A HREF="ashlyn.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Its a Girl!!!">It"s a Girl!!!</A>      <A HREF="grandchildren.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Grandchildren!!!">The Grandchildren!!!</A>    <A HREF="pop_and_grandmother.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Pop and Grandmother">Pop and Grandmother</A>    <A HREF="boatners.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="My Mom and Dad">My Mom and Dad</A>   </div> <bR> <bR> <div> Free Range Farm</div> <bR> <div> <B>Chickens</B></div> <div> <B>In 1952, the first chicken house to commercially raise poultry on the farm was erected with a capacity of 5000 birds.  Six years later this house was doubled in size to increase the capacity to 10,000 birds. </B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> In 1963, a second poultry house was built that had an 18,000 bird capacity.  The labor to build this house was provided by a tenant farmer who sharecropped on the place, his four sons, the second generation farmer (Homer) and his son,  Eric.</B></div> <div> <B>  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>In 1970, a third chicken house was put up with a capacity of 22,000 birds.  This house was built by the second generation farmer, two of his nephews, and the two neighbor boys.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>There has been a continual and extremely varied menagerie of pets on the farm over the years.  A sample of these would include snakes of all varieties (including a rattlesnake that was mistakenly believed to be fangless), rabbits, raccoons, foxes, squirrels, and even a horned toad.  At one point there was a flock of more than forty peafowl and even a pair of button quail.  There was also a flock of geese that helped with the cotton by eating the young grass out of the cotton.</B></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>