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Story: Farm families

Daughter feeding chooks

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Daughter feeding chooks

In the same year, 1903, one of the girls has the task of feeding the scraps to the hens. The hens run around the yard close to the farmhouse.

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Emma Dewson and Jock Phillips, Farm families – The colonial family and the household economy, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/19830/daughter-feeding-chooks (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Emma Dewson and Jock Phillips, published 1 March 2009.