Overview

This special re-print edition of Uncle Cal Stodddard's book "The Home That Was Built By Hens" offers insights into the raising of laying hens. Written in 1913, "The Home That Was Built By Hens" takes the form of a story related by Stoddard about a city dweller named Ned Campbell who loses his good paying job. With only a small savings left, Campbell is forced to look for a new livelihood. Dreaming of never depending on others to make his way, he heads to the country and goes into the chicken business. Through his own hard work, trial, error and self determination he makes a real success of it. Though a work of mostly fiction, the story is intentionally based upon sound principles of Poultry keeping and is intended to educate the beginning poultry keeper about what is required to make a success of breeding and managing laying hens in a manner that differed from typical poultry books. Following the entertaining story of Ned Campbell and his laying hens is an analysis explaining the critical portions of the story and how the reader can apply them to his or her own poultry keeping endevours. "The Home That Was Built By Hens" is an entertaining story that will be found to be of value by anyone who is interested in keeping chickens for pleasure or profit. Note: This edition is a perfect facsimile of the original edition and is not set in a modern typeface. As a result, some type characters and images might suffer from slight imperfections or minor shadows in the page background.