FREE CHICKENS!
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One salty old farm wife, who had raised chickens most of
her life, said we had the healthiest fowls she'd ever seen.
And my aunt—a farmer for some 70-odd
years—butchered a few of our roosters and declared
them so pretty, proud, and meaty that she "almost couldn't
kill 'em". Best of all, their taste and tenderness would've
turned Colonel Sanders' beard green with envy.
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FREE AND EASY
After raising three flocks of these free-roamin' birds, I
have to say that they're the easiest and most economical
meat-growing enterprise possible. The only cash spent in
bringin' up those first orphans went for the four bags of
commercial starter feed from the hatchery, the 100-watt
bulb that heated our brooder, and, of course, electricity.
And the hatchery that supplies us is only one of thousands
across the country that have excess cockerels which must be
destroyed each week of the hatching season. Any one of
these outfits is a probable source of no-cost chicks to
fill your freezer later.
Not only that, but you might even pick up a few layin' hens
along the way. No one can sex every chick correctly, and a
group of 75 alleged cocks will usually contain some
pullets. Our first flock had four females ... our second,
five.
Just one last word: If you do elect to raise some "free
chickens", be sure you're willing to wake up every morning
to a crowing chorus of the healthiest, rowdiest roosters
around!
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