Chicken Day

Usually, it’s beginning to feel like a hot, muggy, hazy July day. This was the day for butchering and freezing chickens that we had raised from chicks. I’m not sure if they were classified as layers or fryers. They served both purposes until Chicken Day.

Dad bought the chicks in the early spring. Each kid had a chance to raise chickens. Dad would provide the ground corn and oyster shell. We would feed them and water them. Since there was no water in the chicken house, we would have to tote a bucket of water from the spicket on the south side of the house. We fed them and watered, but Mom and Dad paid for the feed.