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This story was submitted to the Peoples War site by Anthony Maloney
During the war it was difficult to get meat on your ration so we kept our own chickens in a pen in the back yard. The chickens attracted rats, so we would set traps for them, but they kept coming back, for the hens eggs.
We kept day old chicks in a box by the fireplace to keep them warm and safe from the rats, and when they were bigger we put them out in the pen.
At Christmas we’d kill some of the birds for the Christmas dinner, my sisters and myself used to pluck them and my mother would clean and cook them. When my dad had “necked” the birds they were hung on the clothes maiden in the back kitchen

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