When my husband and I moved back to my hometown in southern New Hampshire six years ago, a friend – long-time resident and farmer – said “you have to get chickens, if only for their entertainment value.” Mostly we wanted eggs, but I was glad to be reminded that chickens had other charms as well. Soon we were the overseers of a mixed-breed clan of 12 chicks who morphed in a few months into 12 busy hens. It didn’t take long for personalities and a social order to become evident.continue
Ellen Chase, 74, is an artist and craftsman who lives with her husband, John Mann, in a rural New Hampshire home on a dirt road. She gets her entertainment watching ants and wild turkeys, and is an admirer of chickens and goats, two species that she says helped make her who she is today.
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