Wednesday, September 13, 2006
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| My last visit to Susu's house on Wolfe Island | |
| A fellow in the village gave Susu his five pet hens because he couldn't bear to keep them cramped up in a small pen anymore. They all have names but she's only sure that one of them is named Suzy. Susu and a neighbour fixed up a little pen in her shed for these excellent egg layers. I was very taken with their lovely bronze feathers and asked Susu to take a picture of me holding one. The hens looked so cheerful running around the house munching on crickets and it made me very melancholy, thinking about all the factory farm chickens standing in piles of feces in gigantic barns with no light. Susu can't keep these hens much longer as they'll be too cold in her shed. Anyway no matter where they end up they probably won't be meat chickens as long as they're laying three or four eggs a day. | |
# posted by Margaret @ 6:01 AM 
