06 May 2015

Cleaning the Chicken and Hen Houses

April 27, 1933  I cleaned out the chicken and hen houses.  Jacob and Corney cut up small branches.  John went to school.  Mama and Mary mended. 


Cleaning the manure out of the chicken and hen houses was a nasty job, but it had to be done.  The manure had to be shoveled out periodically or it would pile up deep.  Of course, it made great fertilizer for the garden.  The hen house was where the chickens roosted at night.  Only the brooding hens were put in the chicken house to sit on their nests of eggs in dark and quiet solitude.

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