NAIA Official Blog » Agriculture http://naiaonline.org/blog For the welfare of animals, to safeguard the rights of responsible animal owners. Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:19:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Where do urban chickens go when they’re done laying eggs? http://naiaonline.org/blog/agriculture/where-do-urban-chickens-go-when-theyre-done-laying-eggs/ http://naiaonline.org/blog/agriculture/where-do-urban-chickens-go-when-theyre-done-laying-eggs/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:12:53 +0000 kenneth http://naiaonline.org/blog/?p=119 When an urban chicken’s egg-laying days are over, she might become dinner, she might live out her life as a pest-eating pet, or she might even be moved into a  “retirement home” for aging urban chickens.

A far-fetched idea in decades past, the poultry-retirement home’s existence serves as a reminder of the growing popularity of urban farming,* the need for animal owners to plan ahead for the lifetime of their animals, and a portrait of the “livestock-as-pet” phenomena that probably occurs more often than many farmers admit.

Do you keep chickens? And if so, what are your opinions on a “retirement home” service like this?

Stella the friendly urban chicken, one of NAIA’s regular subscribers.

* Portland, Oregon has more than 26 times the number of urban chicken permits today as it did twelve years ago.

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