Posts Tagged ‘saturday afternoon’

admin - Fat Head » The Farm Report: Chickens and Chiggers (8/29/2012)

Now that our future egg factories are getting bigger, Chareva and I decided we should expand the size of the fenced-in area around the chicken coop.  the chickens will have a larger bug-hunting area, and it’s certainly more sanitary if they’re not making little chicken-poops in the same yard all the time.  the eventual plan [...]

Lansing’s ‘Tour de Coop’

Eager bicyclists filled the Foster Community Center parking lot Saturday afternoon for the aptly titled “Tour de Coup”: This caravan was on a tour of urban chicken coops throughout Lansing. The four-hour route wove through Lansing’s east side. at one point the 37 cyclists took up the entire right westbound lane of Michigan Avenue as [...]

admin - Chooks find roost in the suburbs (7/21/2012)

MARK TAYLOR/ Fairfax NZIT’S a HOBBY: Christina Campbell is one of the many people turning to chickens as companions at home. The soft clucking of a content backyard hen is becoming more common in Waikato suburbs. Waikato Poultry and Pigeon Club president Fiona Taylor said she had noticed an increase in the number of people [...]

admin - Local interest in CR backyard chickens growing (2/19/2012)

CEDAR RAPIDS – More chickens may be finding homes in Cedar Rapids backyards this spring, as local leaders say they’ve observed an increasing interest in raising “urban chickens” allowed by the 19-month-old city ordinance. On Saturday afternoon, more than 40 people gathered at the Indian Creek Nature Center, 6665 Otis rd. SE, to attend a [...]

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