Urban dwellers across the country are taking up small-scale backyard chicken-farming. In the last year alone, grassroots groups from Maine to Montana have overturned city ordinances banning the practice. The eggs are fresh, and the numbers are surprising. Just don't let the kids get too attached. As the founder ofUrbanChickens.org wrote of her first killing, "It's kinda messy, and it's a little smelly. But it's quite real."
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