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From dawn to dusk, this Aurora chicken farmer is 'where he wants to be'

Except for two years of hell he spent in heavy combat in Vietnam, 75-year-old Ed Huss has never lived anywhere else but Hankes Road.

Huss grew up in a white single-story house on the 88-acre farm first owned by his great-grandfather. And when he and Judie were married 50 years ago, the happy couple settled into rural Aurora in a house right up the road, before moving to the 150-year-old farmhouse that sits next to the big red barn and silo.

Here, the couple has not only made their life-long home, Huss also built chicken

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