Backyard Chickens

NPR has a piece on urban and suburban backyard chickens, highlighting chickens in Winona Park, a 1940s suburb of Decatur, GA, near Atlanta. I've reared chickens when I lived in the country in Texas and in Georgia, but discovered that some cities allow backyard chickens as long as one follows certain restrictions. Here is the piece on chickens in metro-Atlanta: "Backyard Coops Make Chicks Chic", National Public Radio, May 21, 2009. And, to be fair and balanced, here is a grumpy response about the suburban chicken rave by Jack Shafer, posted last week on Slate: "Bogus Trend of the Week: Raising Backyard Chickens."