About this website
The story begins with my friend, Marina who one day decided she wanted to raise chickens in her little backyard in the city of Seattle. She had noticed on her morning walks that a few neighbors had them and the thought of fresh eggs became more appealing. The frustration of putting the project together seemed overwhelming, so it never got done. Where would the coop go? What kind of coop would be needed? How would it get built? Who would feed the chickens? Would the dog like the chickens?
The Seattle Tilth organization held a city chicken tour, in which many of the members of the community opened up their houses for strangers to come and visit and see their chickens. The tour was delightful, the families wonderful, the chickens clucking happily to visitors. After seeing how the many families added chickens to their life, we realized it wasn’t as difficult as we had thought. It is all a matter of doing what works for you and the family. The chickens don’t really care. They are just happy to be fed, watered and honored for their eggs.
It just takes a little research, a few nails and boards, chicken wire, feed and lots of neighbors to give the excess eggs too. And so this website was started to provide resources and assistance to those who dare…
Thanks for visiting!
Julie, Marina, Paul and Toni
PS – The chicken craze just keeps expanding. First my neighbors and then the neighbors next to them and now the whole city street almost. You can’t be without a chicken!
Hey.. we live in on beacon hill, and we have a chicken..
The problem is that we don’t really want or need a chicken. It just showed up in our back yard about a week ago. We posted “missing chicken” on our neighborhood mailing list, and asked around to people on our block, but it seems no one is missing a chicken.
I went out and bough some materials today to try to build something that would help it get out of the weather and we’ve been feeding it, but like I said I don’t really think we are cut out for chickens..
Do you know anyone who can take an extra chicken?
thnx
Wayne (wayne dot tedder at gmail dot com)
I am a Cooperative Extension Educator and I would really like to establish a “City Chicks” program here in Dutchess County, New York. As our economy falters, I find that in my area, (2 hours north of NYC) more people are interested in raising their own chickens for meat and egg production. Issues arise as local zoning tends to put acreage limits for having any poultry which will stymie any efforts that I am trying to build. I would be very interested in what issues you folks have come across and how you dealt with them.