The Gazette Times ran a story about city chickens on October 4th and quoted my husband and me. There were photos – including one of my husband feeding our hens — in the paper version but they unfortunately did not make it into the online version. Talking about being newbie chicken-raisers is enjoyable, but there’s a lot to it that can’t be communicated in the limited space of a newspaper article. If you are interested in raising hens, I would not hesitate to encourage you to look into it, but really look into it and plan ahead. For instance, with regards to building a coop — we did not plan far enough in advance and ended up buying all our materials, rather than obtaining recycled items, which would have been my preference. We were just taken off guard by how suddenly they needed to be out of the house,...
