Highland Heights family fights to keep its pet chickens
HIGHLAND HTS. — City ordinance 505.013 prohibits residents from owning and harboring fowl, including ducks and chickens. For that matter, the ordinance forbids ownership of horses, mules, cattle, sheep, goats or swine in Highland Heights. One family, however, is…

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Eggs over Easy: Brunswick family crows about backyard chickens
BRUNSWICK — It’s nearly 100 degrees outside, and Caz Kosinski is down to a diaper and Crocs.

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Local family fights IFAS over raising chickens on their property
A local family wants to continue raising chickens at their home in Idaho Falls, but the Idaho Falls Animal Shelter says a city ordinance makes that illegal; but the family says the IFAS is reading the law incorrectly.

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Update: I.F. family will keep their chickens despite law
District and city attorneys agree the city ordinance says the Denton family cannot keep their chickens.

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Family’s pet chickens are busy palying and foraging in the front lawn of a house in Lahore, Pakistan.

Anaïs and Jordanne Dervaes give a video tour of the Pasadena homestead where they keep chickens, ducks, and goats By Wendy Witherspoon LAmag.com, October 19, 2009 www.lamag.com If you’ve ever looked at your pet dog (especially after “cleaning up” the lawn) and wondered when he was going to start pulling his own weight, perhaps it’s time to introduce a new member to the household: a barnyard animal. Chickens and quail, for instance, provide delicious fresh eggs, while rabbits produce nutrient-rich droppings that can be dumped right into your garden’s soil for fertilizer. The Dervaes family’s homestead in Pasadena is the gold standard for how to keep farm animals in an urban space, so we returned with our video camera to take one more peek. Just behind the bountiful vegetable beds there’s a pen that holds 15 animals (with various coops and interior spaces for sleeping), but there’s no smell and hardly a peep. (PRINT ARTICLE: www.lamag.com The flock certainly seems to contribute more than most urban pets, but these particular birds may be a bit smarter than your average barnyard banties. Consider some of the names. For the ducks: Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy (from Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women). For the chickens: Estella, Sissy, Lucie, Bella, Dora, Lizzie, and Sairey (literary kudos to you if you guessed Charles Dickens). If you’re already measuring your backyard for a chicken coop, make sure to consult local codes online before demanding that Fido share his space with a fluffy …

A New York family manages to raise free range chickens in densely populated Brooklyn. Video by CNN’s Jonathan O’Beirne.