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More and more people are getting into the backyard chicken craze - (TampaBay.com, October 26, 2009)

Backyard Chicken Coop Basics - (BobVilla.com, October 18, 2009)

Sustainability advocate becoming known around town as the Chicken Lady - (DailyTidings.com, October 14, 2009)

Fort Collins chicken ordinance spurs few complaints - (coloradoan.com, October 12, 2009)

More Central Coast residents are raising chickens - (SanLuisObispo.com, October 10, 2009)

Chick Magnet - (The Saturday Evening Post, October 10, 2009)

Chickens in the City Raising Hens as Pets - (Santa Barbara Independent, October 9, 2009)

Community Coup: Chickens Are the New Dog - (The Huffington Post, October 3, 2009)

A chicken in every backyard? Slowly, Marblehead getting there - (WickedLocal.com, September 23, 2009)

Cash with cluckers - (DailyPress.com, September 20, 2009)

Chickens Make Great Pets - and Make You Breakfast! - (PEOPLE Pets, September 17, 2009)

El Pollo Local - (College Times, August 27, 2009)

In Portland, urban chickens are old hat - (ABC News, August 24, 2009)

Keeping Their Eggs in Their Backyard Nests - (New York Times, August 3, 2009)

Chicken Not-So-Little - (ABA Journal, July, 2009)

Residents push to own backyard chickens - (The Columbia Missourian, July 30, 2009)

Chickens Roam Their Roosts in Urban Backyards - (Noozhawk, July 27, 2009)

Chicken 101 - (The Vancouver Courier, July 17, 2009)

Some City Folk Are Mad as Wet Hens When Chickens Come Home to Roost - (The Wall Street Journal, July 15, 2009)

In ‘urban chickens,’ some see golden eggs - (TheState.com, July 5, 2009)

Chicken farming growing trend in suburbia - (nola.com, July 4, 2009)

Folks in Dallas, elsewhere hatching plans for backyard chicken farms - (The Dallas Morning Newsl, July 3, 2009)

Urban chicken farmers gain popularity; East Grand Rapids family enjoys education, fresh eggs - (mlive.com, June 29, 2009)

Checking out the chicks - (The Economist, June 18, 2009)

More people are keeping backyard chickens - (The Providence Journal, May 1, 2009)

Envisioning the End of ‘Don’t Cluck, Don’t Tell’ - (New York Times, April 30, 2009)

More Suburbanites are Raising Chickens - (U.S. News & World Report, April 24, 2009)

Chickens given roosts in urban backyards - (USA Today, January, 01, 2009)

Chickens earning their keep in Chicago backyards - (Chicago Tribune, December 15, 2008)

Urban Chicken Movement Gains Momentum - (WBBM Newsradio, December 15, 2008)

Backyard chickens find new popularity in suburbia - (LoHud.com, November 19, 2008)

The New Coop de Ville - The craze for urban poultry farming - (Newsweek.com, November 17, 2008)

City Chicks - Easy-to-keep animals - (Gazette.com, July 1, 2008)

City Chickens Range Free - (radio podcast) (National Public Radio, November 2007)

A Chicken on Every Plot, a Coop in Every Backyard - (New York Times, September 2007)

Urban Farming: Starting from Scratch - (Register-Guard, April 2004)

Backyard revolutionaries cluck for poultry rights - (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, February 2004)

Neighbors' fuss over woman's chickens - (Monterey Bay Herald, January 2004)

Chickens give owners plenty to crow about - (Dallas Morning News, January 2004)

PDF Articles:

Chicken Questions & Answers
(Texas Agriculture Extension Service L-5323)

Pest Control on Poultry Farms
(Texas Agriculture Extension Service L-1351)

The Small Laying Flock
(Texas Agriculture Extension Service PS5.250)