Urban Chickens

[clasher]

I don't think people should really be keeping chickens in the city. They are a lot of work and it makes for some really expensive eggs. My aunt has chickens but she lives in the country... I don't think the eggs are all that much better than the eggs sold at the farmer's market. They get a lot of money spent on them too, with nice food and lots of kitchen scraps and so on. I think backyard chickens are kind of an idealized "local food" thing that doesn't make sense when you look at the actual cost of feeding and raising such a small flock of birds. Freakonomics did a bit local food that tries to crunch some numbers about just how inefficient local production is. I love the farmer's market and fresh produce from this area but it's certainly more expensive and something I feel privileged to be able to afford. I'm personally of the mind farming should be kept to the country where it belongs, not in dense cities.