Lipton's eggs will be served as part of a "Free Range Fête," a farm-to-table dinner benefiting Food Outreach, a St. People believe what they want to believe and then try to get nature to fall in line." If you let them outside to breathe fresh air and run around-I don't deal with the same things that confined birds do, you know? I don't know why this seems like such a radical idea to everybody. It's just such a miracle, the whole thing. "When you collect eggs, they're very friendly and gentle.you just reach in there. "There's something about chickens that's just extraordinary," she says. Lipton says, without the rest of her flock. The sole survivor perches on the roof of the tiny Quonset hut in the hen yard, because "she's been bullied a bit," Mrs. In fact, Lipton expresses sadness at having lost a clutch of guinea fowl to some marauding creature one night last summer. "These guys," Ann Sheehan Lipton says, climbing out of the henhouse, both hands filled with brown eggs, "I keep for the eggs, and they also eat compost." Dominiques are a dual-purpose breed-they're layers and fryers-but these are more like companion chickens. They're also surprisingly heavy-the thump they make when they bypass the gangplank and just leap out the coop door sounds like a cat jumping down from a counter. Friendly, they will come right up and stand on your foot if you let them.
Dominiques, a black-and-white ruffled breed that came to America with the Pilgrims, don't cluck-their call is more like a worried-sounding little purr. It houses a band of Dominique hens (and a rooster), who slide down into the yard to peck at bugs and weed seeds and drink water out of tiny tin silos. The henhouse at Winslow's Farm looks like something out of a little kids' storybook, complete with chicken ramp.
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