The Sandberg-Kivikoski Farm

Windham Life and Times November 22, 2024

Chicken farmers were once plentiful in Windham. The above photograph shows the Kivikoski Farm with its chicken sheds. If you’ve never experienced the inside of a big chicken shed like I did with Alan Kivikoski, when I was a kid, I will tell you it is more than a little terrifying!  According to “Rural Oasis, “Poultry breeding began around 1924. The original breeders were A.L. Anderson, O.J. Cochran and R.H. Baily. As years passed, farms were sold and new people entered the business, and poultry raising in Windham (as in many areas of southern New Hampshire) became a profitable business. Kivikoski’s Farm located across from Center School was the last remaining poultry business. It finally closed in 1970. Few people today realize how many chickens were raised here during the period when this was really the only other business enterprise in Windham beside recreation.” https://vintageaerial.com/photos/new-hampshire/rockingham/1966/PRO/76/21