Has Your Child Asked For a Pet Chicken Yet?

Mine haven’t. But it’s really only a matter of time.

I’ve mapped out a place in the backyard for a chicken house and a run. But I’m not in any big hurry.

My neighbors may beat me to it. Seems like backyard birds are all the rage.

Thanks to a good friend, a New Haven backyard chicken enthusiast, I learned about this story on LoHud.com about how New York suburbia has embraced the backyard bird craze.

Check out this video…which includes a sweet take on 13-year-old Future Farmgirl Clara Zander, who’s been raising and breeding chickens and other poultry since she was 8.

Her parents let her start with 6…now she has more than 50. Wow. At least I don’t have to worry about that in our backyard. Not quite enough room for a full flock.