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Underreported: City Chickens

Thursday, December 21, 2006

It’s a little-known fact that it’s perfectly legal to be a small-scale chicken farmer in New York City. A new program called The City Chicken Project helps New Yorkers raise hens for eggs, which are usually tastier and healthier than the eggs available in the supermarket. Owen Taylor, co-writer of The City Chicken: A Guide to Raising Hens for Eggs in NYC, and Karen Washington, community gardener and chicken-keeper in the Bronx, offer some advice.

Slideshow of Chickens in the City


Comments

  • [1] Rebecca Bekanich from Brooklyn June 29, 2007 - 11:18PM

    Glad Just Food is doing just eggs!

    During my Americorp Service with them in 2003/2004, I obtained 4 meat chicks at a conference. I raised them on my boyfriends apartment roof in Bushwick. (I always got a strange look from the pigeon feed guys when shopping for chix food). When they were of age, we slaughtered and cooked them. I learned 3 things from the experience:

    1. I do not know how to raise meat birds.

    2. There is a reason that there is a division of labor on the farm- never be the one to both slaughter AND dress/cook the chicken!

    3. The next time I do chickens, it will be for eggs only.

    Since then, my story has gotten around and I've been known as the Chicken Lady.

    Keep clucking.


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