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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;yourturntoloveit, post: 88274, member: 57&quot;]My father (and his father before him) raised chickens <u>for family use</u> (eggs and eventual hens which were eaten) which had a &quot;hen house&quot; with straw &quot;nests&quot; to go into at will (except the door was closed at night to keep out marauding animals).&nbsp; The rooster ran around at will (as is the &quot;pattern&quot; of <u>all</u> &quot;roosters&quot; with two legs).</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, there is an odor (ammonia) in a hen house even if the chickens are free-range and the hen house (&quot;chicken roost&quot;)&nbsp; is cleaned/scrubbed/nesting straw changed often.</p><p><br /></p><p>That &quot;odor&quot; explains why there are references from long-ago days about taking a woman suffering from &quot;the vapors&quot; (fainting spell) into a hen house to be rejuvenated/revived. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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