Arth’s family is part of a growing trend of urbanites who keep chickens as pets in cities across the US, including Madison, Seattle, New York, and Austin, TX, according to Ron Kean, poultry extension specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Harrison-Noonan is a carpenter, and has been selling plans for home-made chicken coops for the past year, both nationally and internationally. He says he is now selling four times as many plans for coops than when he began a year ago. Madison itself has about 40 families with backyard chickens, according to Madison’s city treasurer’s office. This was illegal until 2004, when Madison began allowing ownership of small flocks in city-dwellers’ backyards. Prior to that point, says Harrison-Noonan, there was the “chicken underground” ? scattered citizenry who secretly kept their birds.
Read more: Chicken in the city – The Scientist – Magazine of the Life Scienceshttp://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/53190/#ixzz0qw4GTrUFArth’s family is part of a growing trend of urbanites who keep chickens as pets in cities across the US, including Madison, Seattle, New York, and Austin, TX, according to Ron Kean, poultry extension specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Harrison-Noonan is a carpenter, and has been selling plans for home-made chicken coops for the past year, both nationally and internationally. He says he is now selling four times as many plans for coops than when he began a year ago. Madison itself has about 40 families with backyard chickens, according to Madison’s city treasurer’s office. This was illegal until 2004, when Madison began allowing ownership of small flocks in city-dwellers’ backyards. Prior to that point, says Harrison-Noonan, there was the “chicken underground” ? scattered citizenry who secretly kept their birds. Arth’s family is part of a growing trend of urbanites who keep chickens as pets in cities across the US, including Madison, Seattle, New York, and Austin, TX, according to Ron Kean, poultry extension specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Harrison-Noonan is a carpenter, and has been selling plans for home-made chicken coops for the past year, both nationally and internationally. He says he is now selling four times as many plans for coops than when he began a year ago. Madison itself has about 40 families with backyard chickens, according to Madison’s city treasurer’s office. This was illegal until 2004, when Madison began allowing ownership of small flocks in city-dwellers’ backyards. Prior to that point, says Harrison-Noonan, there was the “chicken underground” ? scattered citizenry who secretly kept their birds. a growing trend of urbanites who keep chickens as pets in cities across the US, including Madison, Seattle, New York, and Austin, TX, according to Ron Kean, poultry extension specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Harrison-Noonan is a carpenter, and has been selling plans for home-made chicken coops for the past year, both nationally and internationally. He says he is now selling four times as many plans for coops than when he began a year ago. Madison itself has about 40 families with backyard chickens, according to Madison’s city treasurer’s office. This was illegal until 2004, when Madison began allowing ownership of small flocks in city-dwellers’ backyards. Prior to that point, says Harrison-Noonan, there was the “chicken underground” ? scattered citizenry who secretly kept their birds. Read more: Chicken in the city – The Scientist – Magazine of the Life Scienceshttp://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/53190/#ixzz0qw4WGqOp
Barbara K Iverson 