Concerns about backyard hens?

Urbanchickens.net has some fabulous articles about hen-keeping and common concerns about legalizing backyard flocks. Here's a post about avian flu, and how backyard flocks actually help keep us safe.

Here's a great post about the cost of enforcing chicken ordinances.

I'm working on a fact sheet to answer concerns about backyard chickens. I'll have them at our meeting, Thursday, June 13^th 6-7pm – Please join me and others who are interested in passing a city ordinance allowing chickens in Aurora.  At Crawford Elementary, on Florence between 16^th and 17^th Streets.