The door opens in chicken poultry poultry in four neighborhoods in Toronto after the approval of a three-year pilot project from the list of banned animals to remove.
Of course there are many chickens already illegal in the city. The balloon has investigated an underground urban farmer and anonymity promised to protect against a repressive regulation.
Emily, a lawyer for thirty resident Triangle Junction in West Toronto (an area not covered by the pilot) was to raise chickens in the city for several months. She and her partner, a hospital director, are allergic to animals skin time, so I looked to be chicken as a way to keep animals with the sites Benefits outdoors and get eggs. But they do not feel in your garden cage, relaxed with renting two chickens in May. Yes, the rent .
They called their red and after the arrival of illegal Cluckers time, others know quartet settled into routine use. Birds have a small series in their cage and go to the farm when the couple is at home. Add barbecues with friends and stray chicken attractions for children from the neighborhood have been. The couple shared eggs - each bird is a day off from his best side - with colleagues and friends.
With the arrival of cold weather, red and leave his farm chicken 15 October the couple about $ 550 paid for rent chickens, including a cooperative, food and customer service.
They had fun with his pair of poultry, but Emily says that they will not be mini-farmers next year. There was a lot of commitment and cleaning, he said, and had to take precautions chicken to sit when they left.
- is a learning curve about chickens?
These are strange animals and have habits that we did not expect. Bathing dust, which means that dig holes in your yard and toss to clean dirt around them. So we have four or five holes in our backyard. Caring for them is quite simple. You feed them, let them out. It is no longer simply get used to their behavior. Pick was really the most important thing we struggled with at first. One of them was very surprised when we had them, we would therefore to a time trying to chase his court for 10 minutes to do it in the cage.
Son - who have problems with its neighbors?
We were very concerned about it. We have a court that a strange arrangement is where we have a neighbor, but we are also vertically on three or four other locations. So we have many neighbors who easily realized we had chickens. So we have a brochure about a week before to explain it, what we do and say the program and are not noisy, are not bad, and do not worry, we will bring the eggs. And luckily our neighbors were very excited.
Are you worried caught on?
I think we did at first, because despite our neighbors said they with that were fine, there are many sites that are in us, I'm sure more people knew. Than two months have passed, there was nothing. And that really is not strong. I think people think they are, because they roosters but the hens are not strong believe. If in addition to smell the nose gets directly to the cage, but they do not usually feel. So as soon as we realized that someone disturbing, someone should be simply unaware of whining, we have, I think feel better about it.
Before - you miss your chickens when they leave?
We will. We are definitely used, so that when we sit on the terrace our dinner to eat, they will try to eat some of it, too. Scurrying around us and love us and we are in the backyard. There are bonuses as a pet, it is not how you clean the cage. That's not funny. Caca much and is something I think people should know whether to put the chickens. Poop all over the yard, several times ... but they have a lot of personality. They are fun ... There's a lot of reward. They are nice and quirky.
What's - driving around town?
I think it's a good idea. I think they are like any other pet, really. I do not think there is a danger that they should be banned mean. I think regulation is a good idea, because if it do doubt to humans or to enter the animal welfare, the city has the right and to the public. A pilot project is a good way to get people to buy. I think that probably most people, when they saw the backyard chickens, they would see that there is no problem in the way was meant to be a problem. They are just more birds. There are birds in the backyard around the world.
This interview was edited and condensed.
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