Re: It's not just GM/Ford/Chrysler

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:54:31 -0800, BryanUT wrote:

I'm looking into raising chickens in the backyard. We do pretty
well with the garden, how hard can it be to raise a few chickens for
eggs and meat?

I just dug up a deteriorating sidewalk leading from my back door to
the end of my lot (to make room for apple trees). I always imagined
it used to lead to the privy. However, I have cause to doubt this.
The Roto-Router man informs me that the sanitary tile from my house to
the sewer is original from the 1880s, so I suppose indoor plumbing
was, too. City water didn't start until 1885, though, so there must
have been a cistern someplace. I have never sought any trace of it.
Perhaps indoor plumbing became practical only after city water was
available, but the tile predates it by a year or two. I dunno.

Anyway, I'm thinking now that the concrete may have led to a chicken
coop, but my barber assures me that city code has always banned
poultry. He believes people used to raise doves -- for meat!

My Dad grew up during the Great Depression. He would never pay money
for chicken when we went out to eat. In the 1930s everyone raised
chickens in their back yards (in the country and at the edges of small
towns). Consequently chicken was plentiful -- the next best thing to
free food -- and a monotonous course of fare, too. It was tainted in
everyone's imagination by its association with hard times.

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