National Post Staff Photo July 18, 2008
Backyard Chickens are the newest urban obsession. Unfortunately, many municipalities don’t allow keeping farm animals in resident’s yards (Bunch’s home town of Toronto outlawed keeping chickens in 1999). Vancouver, a city which often takes the leading edge on Canadian environmental issues, has newly re-approved backyard chickens, to the applause of urbanites wishing to be more self-sufficient.
The Globe and Mail newspaper covers the issue here, including a breakdown of the cost, per egg, of raising your own poultry.
