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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Case of Rescued Chicken a Mystery, Says Somerville 'Chickeness'

What was the chicken doing outside, in the snow, at night? Somerville's chicken-raising expert says it's a "mystery."

Update: The chicken was reunited with its ower, according to Deputy Chief Paul Upton. It had escaped from its coop on Cherry Street, he said in an email. It's not the sort of call Somerville police hear from their dispatcher on a regular basis: "Chicken stuck in a snow bank." But that's just the transmission officers responded to Tuesday night, according to the Somerville Police Department's website. The website says at around 7 p.m. Tuesday, officers responded to the stuck chicken near the Shaw's supermarket parking lot off Elm Street in Porter Square. Once on the scene, "Officer Difava bravely jumped into action and saved the chicken from certain peril," the website says. The story caught the attention of Boston.com. Deputy Chief Paul …

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Urban Farming: Raising Chickens, Bees and Crops in Somerville

John Casy

1:24 pm on Thursday, February 14, 2013

Good thing KFC didn't find the chicken first !   more ›

Friday, May 18, 2012

Urban Farming: Raising Chickens, Bees and Crops in Somerville

Urban agriculture fans voiced support for a proposed ordinance that would allow farming in Somerville.

Khrysti Smyth, who lives near Porter Square, has eight chickens in her back yard. They live in a chicken coop she built herself, and she raises them for the eggs. "I have a huge waiting list, just amongst my friends, of people who want eggs, locally grown eggs," Smyth told the Somerville Planning Board and the Somerville Board of Aldermen's land use committee Thursday night. Chickens are becoming her life's work, she said, joking that "I've sort of become a chicken concierge" because she provides chicken-raising advice to others in Somerville and around Boston. (She blogs at thechickeness.blogspot.com.) Smyth spoke at a public hearing about a proposed zoning ordinance that would allow urban farming in Somerville. Yes, Somerville: the most …

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Groundwork Somerville and Johnny D's Uptown Restaurant & Music Club

nancy

11:55 am on Thursday, August 16, 2012

I would have tend to agree with "somerville home owner" on this issue. I believe it would be hard for the city to make sure that conditions in growing chickens would be difficult at best. I would not want to see a chicken coop in every yard and this issue seems to being going in that direction. I think it may be a good idea but I also think that more research needs to be done on the areas and …   more ›

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