![]() ![]() There’s a lot of poop, for starters, and cleaning out even a small coop is a dusty and dirty affair. More gardens and farmers markets, fewer corporate grocery stores sounds nice to my ears.īut there are some realities of chicken-keeping that aren’t completely acknowledged by that chicken coop photo shoot in actress/model Jennifer Garner’s Neutrogena commercial. With doom-and-gloom predictions of a food-scarce future creeping into the news, increasing our sustenance independence is a pretty good idea. I’m all for whatever softens people to the idea of growing food for themselves and their community. The idea of our family farm started out as a vegetable bed and four hens in a tight backyard. I think it’s great, down to the rooster-themed merchandise filling big-box department store shelves. And there are more how-to books about backyard chicken-keeping on bookshelves than a person could hope to read in a lifetime. No urban agrarian worth their salt would be caught dead without a plucky flock of hens these days. Sometimes when I scroll through my Facebook feed or peruse the bookstore aisles, I’m struck by just how popular chickens have become. ![]()
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