Reasons to raise Chickens in your backyard

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Stilwel, Mary (2010, February 19). Reasons to raise chickens in your backyard. MyMissourian. Retrieved from http://mymissourian.com/

Reasons to raise chickens in your backyard

February 18, 2010

Shared by Mary Stilwell

Mary teaches a How-to Hens class at The Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture

Mary Stilwell teaches how to keep hens at the Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture.

One of the best things about raising urban chickens is the joy of watching them; I love to watch the chickens. It’s just like a cat playing in the yard or watching your kids or an aquarium. They are little beings that you take care of and that are in motion and also give you eggs!

If you have never had a backyard egg before, wow! There is a difference – a big difference in color, in texture and in flavor. I actually didn’t like eggs very much and I would never voluntarily cook an egg until I had my own backyard eggs. Then I was like: Oh my God, eggs are good; this is yummy!

One of the other things that I like is that they use your waste and their waste is useful to you so it’s a circle, a cycle of life that you can actually create in your own backyard.

I love the joy that kids get from it and the community that is build around it. People’s kids will come to my backyard to feed the chickens, interact with them and pick them up. They get so excited that when they are playing with their friends in the neighborhood they will get them to come over, so I meet them and their parents. It is really a great community builder. That is one of the things that I am really excited about for Columbia.

There is another How-to Hens seminar on Saturday, Feb. 20th. More information can be found here.

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