25 Things 1940s Chicken Keepers Never Bought

25 Things 1940s Chicken Keepers Never Bought 🌾 A preacher's wife fed five children on 17 cents a dozen eggs while the bank was nailing notices to the church door. Grandpa's breeding book still remembers how. 🕯️ 💫 • 1932, Washington County, Virginia — Ora Belle Sizemore's flock survives the Depression on a dozen eggs and a lot of grit • The Perdue place ran 300 store-bought layers on credit — and lost the whole farm for $38 in back taxes in 1938 • 25 real habits straight from an 80-year-old family breeding book, still working in coops today • The $12, $9, $8, and $6 a month these old tricks save right now, compared to store prices • A six-week spring pen trick and a broody-hen patience trick the hatchery catalogs prayed you'd forget • The final page — marked with a feather — that kept two flocks, eighty years apart, alive Welcome up to the porch, friends. I'm Hattie Lawson, 71 years old, up in the hills of East Tennessee with Grandpa's breeding book open on the table and the girls fussing at the window for their scratch. If you remember when a coffee can of wood ash did the job of a $9 mite treatment, or when Sunday was the only day the hens saw cracked corn, you're exactly who this channel was built for. Pull up a chair — we've got eighty years of pages left to read together. Which one of these old habits did YOUR family still use — the scrap bucket, the ash can, or something Grandpa never even wrote down? Tell me in the comments, I read every one. If this stirred up a memory, hit LIKE so more folks who remember these times can find it. SHARE it with someone who'd know exactly what a "rag nest egg" is. And SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss the next page out of this old book. 🔔 Turn on notifications — there's eighty years of stories left in this breeding book, and I'd hate for you to miss one. #HattieLawson #1940sChickenKeeping #HeritageHens #BackyardChickens #DepressionEraWisdom