LINDEN, AB

Local home cook Mrs. Margaret Martens of Linden arrived early in the morning the day after butchering day to buy up as many chickens as she could from the area Hutterite colony. Martens says she much prefers the taste of the Hutterite chickens to the store bought variety.

“Mrs. Martens was here at five in the morning,” said colony butcher Peter Hofer. “She told us she’d take everything we have.”

Martens says the Hutterite chickens have much more flavour than the Safeway chickens.

“Once you go Hutterite, you can’t go back,” said Martens, as she stuffed her 1998 Ford Taurus to the brim with delicious chickens.

“I may have to return and get some more once these run out,” said Martens. “I’ve filled both my deepfreezes with these chickens yet. I’ve even asked my daughter-in-law

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