Are We Ready For Backyard Chickens?

Chicken in coop @ Both Feet on Main Street. Photo by Dan Toulgoet (Vancouver Courier)

Chicken in coop @ Both Feet on Main Street. Photo by Dan Toulgoet (Vancouver Courier)

Of course we think so, and so does the Vancouver Courier. Writer Sandra Thomas freely admits that she was initially skeptical about the idea, but the tone in her recent cover story in the community newspaper suggests that she may have changed her tune. Here’s the article:

“I hear that sometimes an egg can get stuck. What do you do then?”

You could have heard a pin drop when a woman attending a June screening of the documentary Mad City Chickens at Langara College asks that question following the film. But unfazed animal scientist Heather Havens, who is often referred to as the “Chicken Lady,” answers without blinking an eye.

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