Poultry Outlaws: Chicken Laws Around the U.S.

...of arbitrary and strange municipal codes around the country pertaining to chickens. Recent chicken controversies in Missoula (see our post on that dust-up) and Chicago, prove that urban poultry is still controversial. Albuquerque: Zoning allows the raising of unlimited poultry if penned at least 20 feet from neighboring dwellings. Atlanta: Up to 25 chickens may be kept if adequately housed, i.e. 2 square feet per adult bird, and their enclosure i...

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2008 . . . a year of luxury

...sion accomplished! While at the feed store we also picked up a copy of The Chicken Health Handbook by Gail Damerow. It’s a detailed guide to preventing and treating chicken diseases and problems. We’re new to poultry and, in just an hour of reading, have learned a lot from this book. It’s a must have for anyone thinking about getting chickens. Thanks to info in the book and our microscope, we’re looking forward to a year of DIY chicken fecal exami...

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Chicken Cannibalism!

...e if that will help as there is a minority opinion in poultry farming that chickens resort to cannibalism as a result of protein deficiencies. Most commercial poultry farms take care of cannibalism by cutting off beaks when the chicks are around 4 to 6 weeks old. We believe beak trimming along with the associated practice cramming chickens in “battery cages”, as pictured above, to be inhumane. For more on the behavior of corporate agriculture read...

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Saturday Tweets: Gin Poles, Gardens and a $35 Chicken

...zine (@lowtechmagazine) May 28, 2017 Don’t “bawk” at the price of that $35 chicken. Crow about the bargain you’re getting! https://t.co/5fMplLe3qE — Shannon Hayes (@SapBushShannon) June 3, 2017 One of the most game-changing contemporary America gardens is on Garden Conservancy tour https://t.co/15QjlQBWVW pic.twitter.com/dnFcLUarTB — Thomas Rainer (@ThomasRainerDC) June 3, 2017 Turn a cordless drill into a corded drill https://t.co/dBbyUUYixU — Ro...

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