Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Ducking The Chicken Issue

The anti-chicken sentiment is still riling me up.

Neighborhood cats eats birds. Dogs are allowed to poop in my yard by their owners. Ducks block traffic on city streets. Yet the Record-Eagle wants to worry about roosting chickens in Traverse City neighborhoods?

More from The Atlantic: Why Backyard Chickens Are a Trend
...chicks are getting hard to come by in Austin. Our local feed store, Callahan's General Store, now sells out of a thousand chicks a week, as there is a "boom" in interest in backyard chicken flocks...