One of the things that I found interesting about that letter written by my grandfather was the information that when his family first came over to the United States they were planning to be chicken farmers. He that the plans didn’t work out, although the letter did not explain the reasons for it.
The reason that I found that interesting was because for the past two years I’ve been comtemplating buying a few chickens myself. I’m a member of a Yahoo Group of local people who write about a lot of different things and for some reason there is always chatter about chickens for sale, eggs for sale, and how having a couple of chickens in the yard helps to keep the yard free of ticks.
So I’ve started researching the possibility of going ahead and giving it a try. I’m going to have to look into the different hatcheries, what I’m going to need to learn about incubating eggs. I wonder how my grandparents would react if they were still alive if they learned that I was thinking about getting a hatchery and raising chickens!

