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Article in San Jose Mercury News: San Jose family follow new popular trend of raising backyard chickens By Tiffany Carney Willow Glen Resident Posted: 05/04/2009 05:22:01 PM PDT While most people don't associate backyard chickens with city living, there's a growing number of San Jose residents converting portions of their yards into coops to raise hens for fresh eggs. A recent "chick sale" at Sam's Downtown Feed and Pet Supply on West San Carlos Street attracted long lines, with people coming from as far as Hollister for a chance to pick out the perfect chicks to bring home. "We've sold...

Yet another article published in New York Times about keeping backyard chickens in suburb, town, and city. This one about how some cities are changing ordinances by popular demand, increasing legal allowances, in some instances from zero to six. I love the title. Envisioning the End of 'Don't Cluck, Don't Tell' By Peter ApplebomePublished: April 29, 2009New Haven In the modest backyard of Rosemarie Morgan’s 1890-era house, about a half-mile from Yale University, there is a small Buddha, azalea and forsythia, Japanese cherry and plum trees, and an Amish-made chicken coop with five residents — four who lay eggs and...

Mahalo to the KHON2 team for sharing the backyard chicken revival with Hawaii viewers. Jai and Kenny came down on Friday early afternoon and we were on tv by the six o'clock news. A couple of people in the newsroom are already raising chicks, so KHON2 came to see what the growing interest was all about.Anchor Joe Moore mentioned that the hatchery business is booming because of the downturn in the economy and people wanting to raise their own food.No boom here. Like everyone else, we are managing to stay afloat by choosing to know how fortunate we are to...

Over the last few years, we've seen the interest in backyard chicken raising grow to a level we could call a movement, but what is more of a revival.A lot of people coming back to the old-style, old-school, common sense idea of raising a few chickens in the backyard for a steady supply of fresh eggs. Eggs, organic weed and pest control, and plain old companionship and entertainment.In a lot of folks we have met over these years we sense a real community or a connection that we feel is community. We've created a Facebook Group hoping that it could...

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