What is nice about these folks is that they are not just selling their cool Eglu with "foxproof run," they are providing verything you need to keep chickens, including chickens, books, chicken feed and a "chicken club." This is mainly for Brits of course, but that doesn't mean you couldn't start your own Brooklyn Chapter. (Thanks, Jill!) MGR
I can't wait to hear what the co-op board has to say about this!
The enclosure doesn't look rat-proof, which would be a significant concern for urban chicken fanciers.
It looks like a little putting green! For chickens!
For real though, how cool to have fresh eggs every day. Now I want a chicken. Great. Thanks a lot Maxwell.
check zoning laws first. not sure, but i think most ny areas don't allow chickens. also, keep in mind that if you have a lawn and like to keep it, the chickens love greens and will pick the grass clean wherever they're kept. my friends' back yard is now a mudpit thanks to his chickens... but the eggs are great!
Amanda--
Didn't you mean the coop board?
(sorry... couldn't resist.)
Ah yes, what a nostalgic day.
Faith's kitchen reminds me of the one in my childhood home (that still doesn't explain why I like it though) and this post reminds me of the chickens and rooster that my mother kept in the garden of the same home set in a tiny English village (we lived opposite the village gossip that seemed to know the business of all 1000 ppl that lived there) surrounded by farmland. We were the only non farm workers that kept chickens though and despite being surrounded by said farms I used to overhear complaints over the hedge from ppl about our rooster crowing at 3 in the morning. I guess I can't really blame them.
BTW, hijiki, no problems with the grass but that may have been because they were too busy eating the cabbages.
Actually, I believe that William Grimes looked into the laws when the chicken wandered into his backyard in Astoria a couple of years ago and he found that you can keep chickens as pets in New York. I think you can't have a rooster and you can't start running some sort of moneymaking poultry endeavor i.e. have 87 birds in your studio.
When I first moved to Brooklyn just off Smith St. several years ago someone down the block at a store front church had a rooster you could hear crowing every morning. It went on for a least a couple years. I think it was a pet left over from an Easter chick.
can u have a chicken in upstate new york as a pet? i hatched chickens and now i want to know if i can keep them.oh yeah and how many can you keep do you have to have more than one more than six? i dont know but thanks anyway!