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Agriculture

Lifestyles

Monday, October 26, 2009 10:04 PM

Chickens in the city

I have seen a lot in the newspaper about people having chickens in Ottawa.

When I was young, I lived in Columbia, Mo., and, at that time, almost everyone had a cow and a chicken house in the backyard. But, unlike in Ottawa, no one ever complained about it.

It was a source of food.

The other day, a neighbor complained that a chicken had flown over a fence and gotten in one lady’s yard. To stop this kind of thing, just catch the chicken and trim one wing, preferably the right one, back 2 or 3 inches. That way, the chicken can’t fly because the feathers aren’t the same length.

When I was 8 years old, we moved to the country. But no one complained about everything in those days, unlike the people of Ottawa today.

It comes down to someone trying to run someone else’s business. If they would just take care of their own, they would have enough to do. There’s too much of it in Franklin County.

— Jesse Chick, Princeton

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Chickens in the city

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