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Posted: Monday, 15 December 2008 7:51AM

Urban Chicken Movement Gains Momentum



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- We all have heard of eggs "fresh from the farm". How about fresh from the back yard?

It's legal to keep chickens in Chicago.

One East Garfield Park resident who keeps five hens in a coop outside her home tells the Chicago Tribune the birds are "like pets with eggs."

Slaughtering the birds is prohibited in the city.

Evidence of the urban chicken movement includes the magazine Backyard Poultry and the Web sites BackyardChickens.com and urbanchickens.net.

Tara Keating and her husband keep four hens in a coop installed inside their condominium's garden.

She estimates the coop, chicken wire and feeders cost $500. "You are not going to make money," she told the Tribune.

But not everyone is a fan of urban chickens. There's the noise the birds make, and the smell.
 


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12/15/2008 8:56AM
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12/15/2008 12:01PM
Urban Chicken Movement Gains Momentum
I have three chickens for for organic egg production. I like them. What about the noise from lawn mowers and the smell of garbage cans. Isn't that worse than a few chickens.
12/15/2008 3:18PM
not smelly
Chickens do not smell if the coop is kept clean. Trash cans and too much perfume smell much worse. They are a lot quieter than most children in the neighborhood. I'd much prefer chickens next door to a lot of people I know!
12/15/2008 4:17PM
urban chicken delight
I have three backyard chickens and there is no smell i clean out their bedding once a week and depending on the breed you own there is little noise. My neighbors didn't even knew i had then till i said where i got the eggs for my deviled eggs at this last summer block party. It is a nice way to get back to knowing where your food comes from free bug and weed control and great for my compost
12/15/2008 5:04PM
High Flyin Bryan
Try given em some Old Milwaulkee Unemployedchickenfarmer they love the stuff, it sure doesn't get any better than this
12/15/2008 5:07PM
MPC
Chickens make very good pets, i have 6 no make that 5 in my condo, downhere in Texas.
12/15/2008 5:12PM
Chicken Man
bawk bawk, bawk bawk
12/15/2008 5:14PM
Urbancocksman
I challenge all cockphobes to a fist fight!
12/15/2008 5:19PM
Edna
I've been feeding mine whole grains and oats, what do you guys reccomend?
12/15/2008 5:22PM
Chicken Man
bawk bawk, bawk bawk, bawk bawk
12/15/2008 5:38PM
Comment on this story.
Share your thoughts, chicken.
12/15/2008 5:46PM
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I said to share your thoughts. What are you? Chicken?
12/15/2008 5:47PM
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Yeah you! I'm talking to you!
12/15/2008 9:53PM
Chicks r Us. Inc.
Its a gosh darn shame when we finally find a placelike this to share our ideas, our hopes and dreams, only to have a few chuckles heads come in and spew a bunch of cockamamie nonsense about something we hold dear to our hearts, my partner said i shouldn't say anything, because we are well known in the gay community, but i say so what? I guess you people are called trolls whatever that means, go troll somewhere else
12/16/2008 12:39AM
The Voodoo u do
I am in need of the chicken bone, email me, i will save your soul!
12/16/2008 10:31AM
Please dont change my text message this time.
I have three chickens for for organic egg production. I like them. What about the noise from lawn mowers and the smell of garbage cans. Isn't that worse than a few FRIENDLY HENS.
12/16/2008 10:35AM
hens not roosters
Obviously roosters would be to noisy and they don't produce eggs anyway. I don't think anybody would notice a few hens clucking.
12/16/2008 12:11PM
Rural Chicken Owner
I have 4 hens, live on just shy of 2 acres. My neighbors don't like them, and have talked about turning us in because out here in CO one must have 2 acres for animals. SOld my two goats to keep my chickens! Love those fresh eggs!SO far neighbor to the south of us have quieted down.
12/16/2008 12:13PM
Rural Chickens post 2
DO chickens lay eggs in the winter? Should I put a light in the coop to keep them warm? Their water is heated. Thanks for the imput. Merry Christmas!
12/16/2008 1:29PM
BYC
http://www.backyardchickens.com/
12/16/2008 6:37PM
I'm a kid and 4-her
I'm in 4-H and raise chickens (14) in a small coop in my backyard! They are a 4-H project! They smell sometimes..but that's what pine shavings are for! I feed mine Cracked Corn, hormone free chicken Layer food, oyster shells, and grit. It depends on the kind of chicken breeds you have..I have two winter breeds and they lay eggs..but I do have 14 so I get about a dozen every other day or so! :D YAY! Oh and I'm 16..I think everyone should have one chicken..really a more of green movement, I say!
12/17/2008 4:42PM
Catching up to the past
I live in rural residential community. I think we should be able to have any barn yard animal we want considering urban residentials can have chickens. Madison, Boston and now Chicago! This is a great movement and needs to catch more momentum. I liketo know where my food comes from and what it was fed. We are what we eat is a reality, not just a cliche! European peasants had more rights that us rural residential folks!
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