Thursday, February 3, 2011

Chickens in New York

A wonderful report in the New York Times about how a missing chook brought the whole street together.

Elizabeth Giddens shares her marvellous story...
 
"THE chickens of New York City, for the most part, live fairly sheltered lives, securely tucked into private backyards and padlocked community gardens. Our chickens, by contrast, are public figures — their yard faces 20 feet of busy Bedford-Stuyvesant sidewalk. The chickens themselves chose this bustling thoroughfare, decamping there even when they could have settled in our spacious, semiprivate back garden. They wanted to see and be seen — like so many New York transplants, they seemed to feed on the energy of the street... read on.

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