Fondly remembering chickens in town

Dear editor,

Seeing chickens on the front page of the PCN truly made me sit up and take notice!

Chickens have played a big part in my life, both in the little city of Malta and also on our farm/ranch north of Saco.

Let’s go back in time, to the Depression year, 1937. My widowed mother ordered baby chicks enabling our family of four children to shortly have fresh eggs and often fried chicken. This was in city limits of Malta. My brothers put up a high fence for a practical enclosure. Naturally, there was a coop, with needed nests.

Next door to the east lived the large family of E.O. Hans...