Sleeping Chickens

As most of you know, the old farmers have small rods in their chicken houses so the chickens can to into the houses at sundown, jump up on the poles and go to sleep. It seems that the grip of the chicken's feet doesn't let go even though he is sawing some logs. (the same for wild birds)

When I was a kid there were still sharecroppers around the South. The ones I knew were white. They would work for a large or small farmer tilling the land for part of the harvest. Most of the time they would become disenchanted after getting such a small part of the crop, and move to another run down house and try their luck on another farm. When they moved they would go out to the chicken house the night before, catch their chickens and tie their legs for traveling.

I knew a family once that moved so much that every night the chickens would go on the roost and cross their legs in anticipation of another move.