Urban Homesteading Requires a Slightly Different Approach

Rural homesteaders have pretty much always kept chickens, and in fact the practice is nearly synonymous with homesteading, farming and rural living. After all, keeping chickens helps you be more self-sufficient, and with all that land, it's a good use of space to keep animals that will help support you. However, now people in suburban and even urban areas are adopting the practice as well, with some cities even changing their regulations to allow limited backyard chickens.

However, just because you can keep chickens in the big city doesn't mean it always works out as well as it does in the country. In fact, there are several issues unique to urban and suburban areas that you need to be aware of, and that people in rural areas usually don't have to worry about. Fortunately, simply knowing what these issues are can help you develop a plan for how to manage them.

To learn how to keep chickens legally and safely in an urban environment, please continue to Page (2) for four things you absolutely, positively need to know.

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