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Benefits Checklist For Urban Chickens


Its one thing to own urban chickens and live day-to-day with the benefits of raising your own backyard hens. Its quite another to be able to clearly talk about these same benefits so others can understand just why you keep your chooks around.

Lucky for us, the fine folks running the Windsor Eats blog have shared a list of benefits that urban chickens bring to a community by way of documenting the efforts of Steve Green of Windsor Essex Community Supported Agriculture to legalize chickens in Windsor, Ontario (just across the bridge from Detroit, Michigan).
Some of the key benefits to our community:
  • Chickens can provide healthy, pesticide free eggs
  • Reduction of weekly food bills
  • Reduction of green house gases through reduction in food transport costs
  • Chickens consume kitchen waste, reducing municipal waste problems
  • Chickens produce great compost for the garden
  • Chickens are a great way to teach kids about food sources, hands-on
  • Chickens make great pets, for big kids and little kids alike
  • The path to global environmental sustainability begins with local initiatives and urban chickens are one of those initiatives
  • Chickens kept in back yards are generally living in much more humane conditions than their battery cage industrial chicken counterparts
This list is a great start... are there any others youd add to the list?

Photo credit: Windsoreats.com


    Benefits Checklist For Urban Chickens