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Chickens
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.
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.
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.
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.