Posted on 01/02/2009 5:07:49 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Pleasant Hills, CA (AHN) - While thousands of dogs and cats are being given up by pet owners across the U.S. as times become harder, chickens are gaining popularity as household pets in some U.S. cities.
The rising popularity of the feathered creature is due to the chicken's ability to provide eggs, pest control, fertilizer and eventually meat. To address zoning regulations, homeowners are working to amend local laws in areas like Fort Collins, CO, Bloomington, IN and Brainerd, MN.
One of the pioneers of raising chicken as household pets, Rod Lublow of California, even created the Website BackYardChickens.com to help the growing web community with 19,000 members throughout the world address issues concerning their poultry habit. In the U.S., the portal counts members from California, New York, Washington, Oregon and Colorado.
Some cities like New York, Los Angeles, Portland and Seattle already allow chicken to be raised by urban residents, according to Longmont, Colorado city planner Ben Ortiz.
The proposal, though, to amend local laws is expected to encounter some resistance from other residents who believe the backyard chicken habit is an urban fad which will pass some day.
These people are whack.
How many of those chicken pet owners speak Spanish?
There is a good supply of these fine feathered creatures...in the Republican congress.
Those things crap about every 30 seconds.
ROFLMAO. Yes. Yes, they do! :)
I wouldn’t do that because chickens are nasty.
Given the current state and cost of airline food, I’d recommend that frequent travelers bring live chickens from home with them on the plane to cook en route.
We have a dozen Buff Orpington layers for our needs (just three of us). They are wonderful birds, but I wouldn't have them in the house either. Now rabbits are another story. We keep a buck and two does in our basement. We raise them for meat. Healthier than chicken, and cheaper to raise too since we butcher the litters as soon as they are weaned. Only have to feed the adults, and get high grade fertilizer to boot.
I don't really think they keep them in their home, probably, as indicated by the article, they're backyard pets.
I'd love to have chickens as backyard pets, but so would my Weimaraners, LOL.
Brought to you courtesy of Latin American “culture”.
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They are great in the yard its free fertilizer and eggs. very common in Florida.
Whereas I can understand the attraction of fresh eggs....but house pets??
This author must be interpreting these folks actions really loosely.
Sorry, but a chicken is not going to play fetch anytime soon.
My mailman said...I had a package that was "peeping"....lol!!
If I remember right they sent a baker's dozen...and they are were just fine.
And grew up to be just fine...although 3/4's of them were bobcat / coyote feed in the end.....Ugh!!
FRegards,
My neighbors speak spanish, and have flock of chickens, wash hanging on the fences, jacked up cars in the yard, several pieces of abandoned furniture, looks like third world country...
We free range ours in our 15,000 square foot vegetable garden during the spring and summer. Keeps down the insects and fertilizes in one step. My 6 yr old collects the eggs in the morning when we let them out and has them all back in the chicken house by sundown. He does one more pass through the garden for eggs before supper time.
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