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Did anyone else see the article in the USA Today about raising chickens with NIFTY (Rob) in it!?
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Here is the online link to the story:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2009-01-02-urban-chicken_N.htm
 
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Really cool Nifty !!

Once again, you are up against people who think:

"Ortiz says skeptics in Longmont worry that the hens will be noisy, smelly and dirty, attract rodents and predators, and pose health risks from disease."

Too bad. I know, with a lot of education on this people will finally come to believe that a chicken is no more of a problem, most likely less so, than a dog or a cat.

I knew NOTHING about chickens (except what my grand ma ma showed me years ago) until I got a small flock of them. I had no idea they were such an interesting and facinating creature.

I remember the first time we hatched out 9 eggs from a wild red jungle fowl hen that laid a clutch in my pig barn that we converted to a mini horse barn. I was simply dumb founded. I think I stayed up all night and watched the little boogers zip out.

I have a nice wild roo from this hatch and I can see him running around as I type.
 
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Great article -- and in a national newspaper, no less! We may be up to 22,000 members sooner than we think!
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Most of the people who think chickens are dirty, smelly, etc., or think one should just "go to a local farm" to get fresh eggs have either had a bad experience with chickens (namely, a bad chicken owner) or just haven't spent any time with chickens at all. Also, some people are just stubborn; there is just no changing their minds.
 
It still blows my mind when people complain about the noise, mess and smell. Uhhhh....I can smell my NEIGHBOR'S DOGS!! I can HEAR my neighbor's dogs and by god, the yards of the dog owners look horrible!
 
It is sad that it's laced with negativity.

I did a mag article in Just Labs mag in 2002 about me and my Psychiatric Service Dog that I trained and it too contained a good amount of negative things....
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But I guess they're goal is to portray both sides, right?

Nonetheless, it's a great article Nifty! Congrats!
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Good interview Nifty! and ha ha what would happen if chickens ran amuck, kind of like the movie 8 million years ago about killer tomatoes, or maybe they could make a show about chickens gone bad!
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You and your human girls sure make a nice picture!
 

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