Keeping Chickens

Chickens Home To Roost or ‘cock-a-doodle-don’t'…

I posted the other day about a news article appearing in a Devon website, regarding keeping cockerels and the trouble it seemed to be causing between neighbours and the local council.

This has now made national newspaper headlines in the Sunday Express and the blame has been ’laid’ firmly at the feet of the success of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s recent chicken keeping programme on tv.

The article expands on the chicken keeping craze in that particular area of Devon, due to the close proximity to Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and the fact that he has a organic produce shop in the area.

With the supposed credit crunch biting ordinary families food budget, coupled with rising prices at the supermarket; there is bound to be a increase in families keeping chickens, and also I think a increase in articles appearing in local and national newspapers about back yard chicken keepers causing neighbour disputes.

Seems like there’s a lot of ‘feather rustling’ and ‘crowing’ over nothing down in that area of the country!