There is also a chicken story that references BYC on local SF station ABC 7! Was 2009 year of the chicken and I missed it or something?
Most of us pick up our eggs at the grocery store, but more and more people around the Bay Area are skipping the trip and walking no further than their back yard.
There was a time when fresh eggs came out of nearly everyone's backyard.
"Maybe 40-50 years ago everybody had chickens. I mean it was normal to have chickens in the city," said Susan Anderson.
Most of us pick up our eggs at the grocery store, but more and more people around the Bay Area are skipping the trip and walking no further than their back yard.
There was a time when fresh eggs came out of nearly everyone's backyard.
"Maybe 40-50 years ago everybody had chickens. I mean it was normal to have chickens in the city," said Susan Anderson.
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Oakland resident Susan Anderson is one of a growing number of people around the Bay and the nation who are turning back the clock and putting the cluck back in their backyard.
"I got them because I thought it would be really good for the kids to see the whole cycle of life," she explained.
Paul Cavanese and Ann Naffziger built a hen house behind their Alameda home.
"Our last flock we had for three years and they laid over 1900 eggs," said Naffziger.
In San Rafael a hen house has been built into a play structure at the Pollock house.
"The more I read about it the more I realized it just sounded totally easy," said Diane Pollock.
No one knows just how many urban chickens are in the Bay Area but we do know they are attracting a lot of attention.
"We know quite a few within just a half mile of here, and we know a lot of people who are thinking about getting them," said Naffziger.
Chickens, it seems, are catching on.
In fact, the website
www.backyardchickens.com gets 6 million page views a month and 4,000 new posts on its online forum each day. There is even Backyard Poultry magazine which boasts 50,000 subscribers nationwide.
I just registered to comment at USA Today. A certain (obvious shill for the poultry industry) individual over at the the comment board needs to be schooled...
