Eggstravaganza: A 4-part Series on Raising Chickens for Eggs

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February/March 2003
By Cheryl Long 
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City Chicken Laws 

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Even city dwellers can keep a few hens as easily as they keep dogs or cats. We surveyed 20 cities across the country and found that most allowed chickens. If you live in a city that currently prohibits your feathered friends, we're betting you could get the law changed if you tried. (As our City Laws chart shows, all four cities that prohibit chickens allow dogs, sometimes unlimited numbers of dogs. But a few hens are no more potential bother to neighbors than dogs. So if dogs are allowed, why not chickens?)

Poultry Pest Patrol 

In addition to providing delicious and nutritious eggs, Mother Earth News readers report, a few hens can control grasshoppers and many other garden pests, fleas, flies, fire ants, ticks, termites, lawn grubs, and even mice and rats.

 

And now you're ready for How to Raise Chickens! 

Eggs-pert Input: Thanks to poultry scientist Robert Hawes, University of Maine; Glenn Drowns, Society for the Preservation of Poultry Antiquities; and Marjorie Bender, American Livestock Breeds Conservancy, for their help with this special edition.

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  • jill 4/4/2007 4:44:58 PM

    Our dear friends supply us with fresh eggs (sometimes even
    unwashed) which I have kept in the fridge for two weeks, without
    noticing any loss of quality. I suppose the scientists might
    measure some, but I figure we started out with such a superior
    product, any small reduction in nutrients still leaves us with
    wonderful eggs! Another bonus: the shells are so pretty, I blow
    them out rather than crack them, and use them for art projects.

  • Dawn 4/2/2007 2:44:47 PM

    I was wondering how many days would a free range backyard chickens
    egg be good for in the frig? thank you

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