Yes, I have been spending WAY too much time at I Can Has Cheezburger (which you either love or hate…there is no middle ground).
I just found out about this organization that encourages city dwellers to keep chickens, Urban Chickens. A local food/garden organization that helps establish garden plots for low income inner city residents is giving this a try, too. I’m curious to see how it turns out, as they are also going to have goats.
And now…I want a chicken! Last summer, my sister and I went to the county fair and saw some very freaky and some very beautiful chickens. Wish I had some pics from that…maybe next time. Not that I really could handle the work required to keep chickens even if I did live in a “pro-chicken city” (as their website says…I can just see that on the signs entering the city now…).
Check out the design for the Chicken Tractor…how cool is that!
Now for something very, very strange: You’ve got to know your chicken
you mean…this chicken?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bug_girl/1022824363/
Click around there for the goat photos, too
Oh, I want chickens too! But I can’t figure out how to economically keep them warm up here (apart from having them in the living room, and they just totally clash with the sofa). If you do get some, I hope you write all about them!
I’d love to have chickens, but only for the eggs … periodically we’ll buy some farm fresh eggs at the farm market, or during a trip into Ohio’s Amish country, and they are just amazing, as different than store-bought eggs as a Lamborghini Countach differs from a 1964 Dodge Dart.
However, I think my neighbors might frown upon our keeping chickens in our microscopic backyard. Then again, my neighbor’s teenage son tends to listen to Metallica very loudly in his driveway as he washes his rustbucket 1986 Pontiac daily … so I supposed subjecting chickens to those unpleasant heavy metal sounds could be considered cruel and unusual punishment, worse than even KFC.
Oh, I forgot about that funky chicken, Bug Girl! Ah, good times, good times…;-)
MizMagee, I would LOVE to raise some chickens…however, our neighbors complain about our cottonwood tree (which only “blooms” for a month) so I can just imagine what they would say if I had chickens out back. Oh, did I mention they are both lawyers?
Redbeard: Yes, the idea is to raise them just for the eggs… not to wring their lil’ necks
(although, I do like eating chicken I must admit). And, a teenager listening to Metallica? Is that some kind of retro hip now?