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Rising the case for loving rooster’s song at 5 AM.




The coronavirus times highlighted vantages and disadvantages to raise hens and chickens in our backyards.
After the evaluation, the balance will go to how adventurous you are, where do you live,  how a  firm believer you are in sustainability principles, and your relationships with neighbors.

Hens and chickens are easy to raise, need only small coops as homes, not too much space.  Thrive in any climate. They are very productive, you can get one egg a day, so if you have 6 hens there will be 12 eggs in two days, that is a big amount of eggs! 
You can feed hens with protein food in the winter and leave them free in the warmer time to eat insects, bugs, worms, and cooking scraps, aka free run eggs……
And after sometimes you can set up a small incubator where you can set some fertilized eggs to get the hens’s next-generation (no hormones here). And,  you can also use the meat of the original ones. So there will be eggs and meat.
In potential pandemic’s shutdowns keeping hens will give you some degree of food security, fewer trips to the grocery store, and the certainty to know from where the food is coming and how it is handled.
They can also serve as pets for the whole family for the same price.
So this is the adventurous part, you can do it,  so far so good.

But as we are inhabitants of a society and depending on where you live, by-laws are regulating who can or who can not have chickens in their backyard. In Mississauga city is the By-Law 98-04. You can not have chickens. They have considered the risks of infection, noise, and odors.  All factors that are not a problem in rural areas or places with not much dense population.
But even in rural settings, there are noise considerations in place. How about a neighbor’s rooster happily signing at 5AM when you are in the best of your dreams?
Mariana can speak about this recent wonderful experience. I still remember mine from several years ago in Bogota.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe_HtA5zw9U

But if you are a firm believer in sustainability,  I am sure you will find ways to overcome any blocks in your way to get the pleasure to raise the chickens in your yard.
Rising the case for loving rooster’s song at 5 AM !!

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  1. UnknownMay 10, 2020 at 2:55 PM

    I can hear the rooster very early in the morning and around lunch time every day. It makes me feel like a farm girl :) mariana

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