[Diana in Wisconsin]

I’m currently chicken-less. :( Last year Beau built me a greenhouse, this upcoming spring, it’ll be a chicken coop. We have a barn, but it’s not secure enough for the hens at night.

I used to raise 50 layers at a time; sold eggs to one of the chi-chi liquor store/delis in town. I got $2.50 a dozen for them. He then sold them for $4...and people begged for more!

Quite the racket!

[Vigilanteman]

Backyard chickens were much more common when I was a pup as well. Of course, we gave them plenty of room to run and cleaned up their litter once the spring thaw started. By April or early May, we plowed it into the garden to further enrich the soil.

People getting sick from chickens was unheard of back in those days.