Hendersonville Hen Society enjoys fowl play

From the Times-News:

. . . Funny observations of chicken behavior are shared, as is advice on issues like mucking out coops or preventing older hens pecking at young chicks.

The dozen members present at [Barbara Glassman's, aka “Madame Poulet,”] home cringed at the connotation that their gatherings were a sort of “hen party” — rather, they prefer to think of themselves as an intrepid breed of urban chicken farmers in Henderson County.

“We are women who kind of knew each other before, but we instantly bonded over chickens,” Glassman says. “It’s an obsession.”

Famed quilting instructor Georgia Bonesteel [of Flat Rock] is a member of the Hen Society who has been keeping chickens for about five years.

“I think it’s genetic,” says Bonesteel, adding that her grandfather raised chickens. “I got them mostly for the eggs, honestly. I won’t buy eggs in the supermarket.”. . .

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