My grandmother Powell kept Leghorn chickens and sold eggs to buy their food at the store. Usually she bought sugar, coffee, flour, salt, baking powder and quaker oat meal.
I don't remember her ever making corn bread but surely she did.
I checked out the price of eggs at our local market and discovered a dozen medium eggs were going for$ 2.09. large eggs were over 3 dollars a dozen. I think maybe sister and I should follow our grandmother's example and get some white leghorn hens. They are advertised to start laying at 4 months, eat less food and weigh about 4 pounds.
The only draw back they have is they are flighty and don't like to be handled according to what I read. We don't handle our chickens and since they are penned they can't be jumping around much.
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How many little chicks today...I'd like a pic of the little ones.....chemo today and a DR visit...
It's a familiar story, the one you tell about your grtandmother Powell selling her eggs for the groceries she needed. The same story exists in my family, told by my grandmother. She explained to a young me that she could grow sugar and other things and she didn't have money so that's how she got those few things she needed.
P.S. I meant to say "She explained to a young me that she COULDN'T grow sugar . . .
I wonder how the leghorn would cross with a bantie? I bet they would lay more than our banties and not sat as much...what do you think?
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