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Оглавление| Part Two Chickens By Sue Weaver |
Why Chickens?
In the early to mid-twentieth century, throughout the countryside and in cities large and small, backyard chicken coops were the norm. Chickens furnished table meat and eggs, and most everyone kept at least a few hens. Years passed and attitudes shifted; small-scale chicken keeping became gauche. By the end of the twentieth century, while agri-biz egg and meat producers, immigrants, rustics, and hippies were keeping chickens, urban dwellers and suburbanites were not!
