Monthly Archive: January 2022

Roost together

Once, while chicken tending, I forgot to open the coop until after dusk! The chickens had created their own roost on a pile of logs and were already in their half-asleep, “do-what-you-want-with-me” positions. It...

We’re all cousins

Are all chickens related? I would guess so, in order to be considered a chicken, but I don’t know. But I do know that if you go back far enough we are all related....

Searching for Polly

It was a shot in the dark and it is paying off! My ancestor Polly was a member of the Christian church as her son John Streeter Gleason mentioned in his biography and the...