The old banderob chicken coop. My brother-in-law Jon hauled this building to our property from just down the street from Charlie Banderob's old place.Charlie, who has since passed away was the local area historian. And his father and Mother were one of the first families to land on the Huntley Project. I first heard about the breed of chckens that I have now from old Charlie. He was quite a guy to sit and listen to. A great story teller. He was born on Feb. 28, 1905 here in Montana. I don't know exactely when the chicken coop was built but it is a least 25 years old.
He told me this story about how this breed of chicken ended up in this area:
Charlie's father, Frank A. Banderob met and married his mother Emelie D.M. Thormahlen on April 15, 1895 in Wisconsin. Frank had been here in Montana in 1892 with a building crew and he really liked the area.
When word reached them that Senator Clark of Montana was offering an opportunity to get almost free land, and the chance to work on ditch construction to help you pay your way, and irrigate said lands. They loaded up in June of 1899 with their belongings which included the Silver Laced Wyandotte chickens into an emigrant car and shipped out to Bridger, Montana. His Mother Emelie with 2 older children and the basket of hatching eggs in a grape basket, came out on the passenger train. The same year (1999) he told me the story about how this breed of chickens were the first in our area they had some of the chicken on exhibt at the Homesteader Day Celebration.
They were beautiful! I always wanted some. Well, my Husband was raised on a farm and they had thousands of chickens and his mother used to have an egg route so all the kids had to help in the opertion! He never wanted chickens at our house. So, I didn't have any until on day I thought why not! We got them this year at Easter for the girls to watch grow up. We also got 2 turkens, they are chickens with no feathers on their necks. and 1 Turkey!!!
He helps me feed the animals when he is home giving me a break but he is not to crazy about the chickens. He just built me a new hen nest for the eggs :)
He loves home-made chicken Noodle soup a staple for them as kids every sunday. He also helped me get the chicken coop leveled out :) :)
It is kind of Ironic thatI would get the Old Banderob chicken Coop that was used for the same kind of chicken.
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