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U.S. City Dwellers Flock to Raising Chickens

Posted on October 06, 2008

In the backyard of a suburban home in Denver, Colorado, 22 chickens are hiding out from the law.They arrived when a member of BackyardChickens, an online forum, ordered the birds in the mail this past May. I actually get my chicks in today hopefully, and I am worried that animal control will be at the post office waiting for me with hand-cuffs, the new poultry farmer wrote.An underground urban chicken movement has swept across the United States in recent years. Cities such as Boston, Massachusetts, and Madison, Wisconsin, are known to have had chickens residing illegally behind city fences...

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