Many thanks to Jason Macek for sending us a link to the great chicken coop checklist infographic linked below. Building your own coop? If you follow the advice below, you'll never find yourself s...
http://www.urbanchickens.net/2013/04/infographic-time-chicken-coop-checklist.html
No matter the color of your urban chicken eggs shells, they're all green at their core, and by that I mean green as in "sustainable," not green as in "eww, to the compost heap with you!" In...
http://www.urbanchickens.net/2013/04/why-urban-chicken-eggs-are-green.html
It's hard to resist making eggs pretty when they're removed from the nest. But washing your urban chicken eggs is just about the worst thing you can do to them. The first few eggs we got from our...
http://www.urbanchickens.net/2013/04/stop-washing-your-eggs.html
With the recent deaths attributed to the H7N9 strain of bird flu in China, we should prepare ourselves for an influx of trollish comments about avian influenza appearing on any and all stories ...
http://www.urbanchickens.net/2013/04/bird-flu-from-backyard-flock-no.html
After 6 years of trying to support the cause of urban chickens, I've had a change of heart. The reasons often cited for keeping chickens from within city limits seem reasonable, right? they ma...
http://www.urbanchickens.net/2013/04/its-time-we-outlaw-cats-and-dogs-too.html
This past weekend, Seattle NPR-affiliate KPLU posted Backyard Chickens: Cute, Trendy Spreaders of Salmonella , an article by Nancy Shute. To save you the read, here's a synopsis of the article...
http://www.urbanchickens.net/2013/03/urban-chickens-as-salmonella-carriers.html
Photo credit Eric Rice Chickens, as a species, reach maturity to start laying eggs anywhere between 17 and 26 weeks , depending on the specific breed. This age is referred to as a chickens...
http://www.urbanchickens.net/2013/03/when-to-expect-that-first-egg.html
UPDATE: While it didn't win the People's Choice Award, The Story of an Egg was the most viewed film of the festival! The 2013 PBS Online Film Festival is underway, and one of the films up for c...
http://www.urbanchickens.net/2013/03/make-it-peoples-choice-story-of-egg.html
Passing along this Chick Sale announcement from the 4-H here in Silicon Valley. As I'm watching the usual online sources for mail-order chicks, it seems we're going into yet another high-demand s...
http://www.urbanchickens.net/2013/02/4-h-chick-sale-in-san-jose.html
Happy Valentine's Day, dear readers. I wanted to take a moment to request your assistance and inform you of some important work being done by the Center for Animal Welfare at UC Davis. The...
http://www.urbanchickens.net/2013/02/backyard-chicken-survey-by-uc-davis.html
Flickr photo credit: MrsEds One of the benefits to raising urban chickens is their willingness to eat just about any food scraps tossed their way and turning that food into delicious eggs....
http://www.urbanchickens.net/2013/02/growing-your-own-urban-chicken-feed.html
Back in 2009, I posted about a select group of people in Miami charged with rounding up all the loose chickens in their city. These Chicken Busters had raised over $10,000 for charity at the t...
http://www.urbanchickens.net/2013/02/calling-all-chicken-busters.html
Flickr photo courtesy Bruce Tuten Not so long ago, it was nigh-well impossible to find a local veterinarian to care for a chicken in distress. In 2008, vets might have had some experienc...
http://www.urbanchickens.net/2013/02/finding-medical-help-for-urban-chickens.html
Flickr photo credit: jcolman Did you know you could go to chicken training camp this summer? Yes, you read that right: chicken training camp . While the idea sounds a tad eccentric, a bi...
http://www.urbanchickens.net/2013/02/would-you-go-to-chicken-training-camp.html
I've just finished watching the film Genetic Roulette , and I'll never look at the food on store shelves the same way again. I've also voted for the film to receive the AwareGuide Top Transform...
http://www.urbanchickens.net/2013/01/gmos-knowing-whats-in-your-food-and-mine.html
In honor of the spooky season so close in the rear view mirror (and my own recent viewing of Prometheus ), here's a fun short, "Of Eggs and Aliens " that's sure to thrill the girls in your coop. ...
http://www.urbanchickens.net/2012/11/friday-night-thriller-for-hen-house.html
Still trying to convince your friends that urban chickens are a good idea? Share with them this delightful little video about urban chickens in Portland, Oregon. Can't see it here? See it on Yo...
http://www.urbanchickens.net/2012/09/five-minutes-of-urban-chickens-bliss.html
I never realized my girls were strutting in hopes of being discovered for the catwalk. Now I know better! (see the video over on YouTube )
http://www.urbanchickens.net/2012/05/100-seconds-of-chickens-in-photo-shoot.html
Got urban chickens but still stuck buying eggs from the store? This is an awesome six-minute video from The Lexicon of Sustainability that demystifies the marketing terms of "cage-free" and "fre...
http://www.urbanchickens.net/2012/05/what-does-cage-free-free-range-egg-look.html
One of the things I most love about celebrating this Earth Day is recognizing just how pervasive the idea of urban chickens has become over the last four years that I've been paying attention. ...
http://www.urbanchickens.net/2011/04/happy-earth-day-2011.html
Wow, we had some great comments on last month's post about what to do when chickens no longer lay eggs both here on the blog and on the Urban Chickens Facebook page . Given the choice between pr...
http://www.urbanchickens.net/2011/02/how-to-give-away-unwanted-urban-chicken.html
I visited my parents new house in Seattle this weekend, and wouldn't you know it, a neighbor just two doors down from them has chickens! How did I know he has chickens? Because he keeps his coo...
http://www.urbanchickens.net/2011/01/how-many-of-us-have-road-side-chickens.html
I'm a sucker for creative , cleverly designed and aesthetically pleasing coops. So when a friend sent a link to the nogg , I got all warm inside thinking how cool it would be to have this ce...
http://www.urbanchickens.net/2011/01/another-beautifully-sculptured-urban.html
Photo courtesy Flickr user fooferkitten So what do you do when your hen no longer lays eggs? Keep her around out of gratitude for all those years of eggs? Put her out to (someone else's) pa...
http://www.urbanchickens.net/2011/01/what-to-do-when-chickens-no-longer-lay.html
Black Friday deals on urban chicken coops? Yes, indeed! If you've been sitting on the sidelines of the urban chicken movement waiting for an incentive to buy your coop and chicks in advance of th...
http://www.urbanchickens.net/2010/11/black-friday-deals-for-urban-chicken.html