Closing Bell: Crown Heights Chicken Company
We just heard about the Victory Chicken Corporation, a new start-up based in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, that wants to set up 1,000 chicken coops across the greater NYC area over the next four years. The company will outfit your backyard with the coop pictured (custom-built in Brooklyn), three hens, two months of supplies and a…
We just heard about the Victory Chicken Corporation, a new start-up based in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, that wants to set up 1,000 chicken coops across the greater NYC area over the next four years. The company will outfit your backyard with the coop pictured (custom-built in Brooklyn), three hens, two months of supplies and a quick training in about one and a half hours for $785. (Hey, it’ll pay for itself in time, after a whole lotta eggs!) You can read more about the company at its website or check out this Edible Manhattan article.
I predict now that this will catch on, I also predict that in less than 1 year we will start to hear about all the problems various neighbors are having with their neglectful, inconsiderate or otherwise selfish chicken raising neighbors. There is a reason why our ancestors stopped raising chickens inside towns and cities – it wasnt simply because they liked factory farms or they were dumb.
victory chicken, you’er in my nabe- welcome1 🙂
Would love to do this but we feed feral cats in the backyard- it’s a disaster waiting to happen. If my experience with cats and gerbils is any indication.
Yeah except not easier than raising a cat for example – and look how many of those end up in the shelter.
Sorry but you still have to go outside in the winter and make sure there is water (i.e. not frozen water) and feed them and possibly get a heat lamp if it gets too cold, and you have to clean the coop, someone has to care for them if you go on vacation, etc, etc…..
you can sell your nonsense all you want, but in the end the vast majority of people no matter there adherence to ‘local food’ are not going to be able to effectively raise chickens for the long haul and in the end they will be throwing out there money and (if history is any example) making life more difficult for their neighbors and everyone else.
Great once these short sited idiots realize that keeping chickens is hard work Animal Control will have to take in Chickens too.
At least they can do something with them after they are dropped off.
Please raising a cat is much easier than raising chickens but yes – I think pet stores should be banned from selling cats and dogs – at least until such time that, people arent dumping them in street and our shelters are not forced to kill thousands every year.