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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Chris_ on July 10, 2008, 12:16:38 PM
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Austinites' backyard chicken flocks grow
Local chick and layer sales up 100 percent from last year.
By Molly Bloom
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Monday, July 07, 2008
Frank Curry bought his first chickens to get manure for his compost pile.
Eight years later, Curry and his wife and daughter have a flock of 10in their South Austin backyard, making them members of a growing group of urban chicken enthusiasts.
"In no small part, I think, it is taking control of your food supply," Curry said of the fowl renaissance. "And the eggs are heaven."
H-E-Bs and Super Wal-Marts have made it easier to pick up a dozen eggs at the store than grab them from the backyard coop, but in recent years, Austinites and city dwellers across the country have rediscovered the joys of backyard chicken husbandry.
They don't even have to try to "Keep Austin Weird" anymore.
MORE (http://www.statesman.com/search/content/news/stories/local/07/07/0707chickens.html)
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My grandmother had chickens right in the big middle of Houston. The eggs were fresh and plentiful, but damn, they were dirty birds. She had a banana tree too. I called its fruit "Gherkin Nanas". The birds always got to them, though.