My Pet Chicken Blog

Do you live in a town you wish would stop stomping on backyard chickens? Have you tried to legalize chickens and failed? Does your town council or zoning commission seem to want to control your every move? Do they force you to pay for a permit for the privilege of raising a few hens? In […]

Throughout March, we’ve been discussing ways to work toward getting chickens legalized in your communities. Last week, we took a brief break to share some amazing news with you, but this week we’re wrapping up our legalize chickens DIY series by discussing petitions. This is often the first thing people who contact us ask about […]

The first part of this blog series on how to work toward legalizing backyard pet chickens in your area can be found here. The second “legalize chickens” post can be found here. By now, you’ve done some research so you know what the laws are, who can change them, and you have a proposal to […]

Last week I posted Part 1 of the “Legalize Chickens DIY” series. This is the second post in the series. If you read last week’s post, by now you’ve done some research. You know what the laws are in your area, you know who can change those laws, and you know whether or not they […]

We’ve received a lot of questions over the years about how people interested in keeping chickens can legalize chickens in their area. The typical arguments against keeping small flocks of backyard hens are silly, to say the least. They’re so silly, I wrote a blog post about  the 6 silliest arguments against keeping backyard chickens, […]