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« : June 27, 2009, 07:08:34 AM »

Fairfax used to have one of the largest chicken farms around - It was the dream and livelyhood of Reggie & Joyce Barkyoumb and known as Hillcrest Poultry.  Over the years it has evolved into Hillcrest Foods and now much of that business has moved to New York State.  Reggie & Joyce built a new house a number of years ago just North of Nan's Mobil and later developed it into the housing development on Hillcrest Road.  You would be hard pressed to find a chicken there though.  Reggie & Joyce both love to garden, but I must remember to ask them the next time I see them, why they don't have a few chickens also for Old Times Sake.

I know David Shea has chickens and Swanson's Nursery also has chickens roaming around the Nursery.  The Langelier Family only has chickens for a short time that they raise for eating.

I remember that I could always tell when our hens were laying well back on the farm as mother's deserts would change to those that used a lot of eggs.  Back in those days on the farm, we Catholics could not eat meat on Friday and any fish we had usually came in a can, so Friday's were usually Egg Days.

Fox 44 had a little segment on Chicken Farms In Suburbia last night, which was about people in the village of Colchester having their own chickens.  There is also a video that goes with it if you have high speed Internet.  Just click on the link below:

http://www.wcax.com/global/story.asp?s=10603495

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« #1 : June 27, 2009, 09:10:54 AM »

They are having problems with that in parts of this area.  There is a large hispanic population here with lots of mouths to feed.  Ironically to that story, authorities have broken up many cock fighting rings here.  Betting on the sport was legal at one time, and is very popular around here.  There was a recent bust at a place that had a couple hundred seat arena!

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