Back Criação urbana de galinhas Portuguese

Urban chicken keeping

Urban keeping of chickens as pets, for eggs, meat, or for eating pests is popular in urban and suburban areas. Some people sell the eggs for side income.

Keeping chickens in an urban environment is a type of urban agriculture, important in the local food movement, which is the growing practice of cultivating, processing and distributing food in or around a village, town or city.[1] According to National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service[2] and experts in backyard agriculture,[3] there are a host of personal benefits associated with urban agriculture and keeping chickens in one's own backyard.

Additionally, there is a growing number of people (including in urban environments) who are adopting ex-commercial hens – interrupting their usual destination of the slaughterhouse when the egg farming industry no longer wants them (typically at around the age of 1.5 years).[4]

Those caring for chickens as pets may not have the expectation of eggs; some may even feed their hens' eggs back to them or even hormonally implant their hens to prevent egg-laying, which is purported to offer welfare benefits for the hens.[4] Those caring for chickens as pets may also have experience caring for disabled chickens and/or indoor chickens.[4]

  1. ^ Bailkey, M. and J. Nasr. 2000. From Brownfields to Greenfields: Producing Food in North American Cities. Community Food Security News. Fall 1999/Winter 2000:6
  2. ^ "Alternative Poultry Production Systems and Outdoor Access (Summary)". Attra.org. 2011-10-12. Retrieved 2012-04-25.
  3. ^ "EatWhereULive". Sustainablefooddenver.org. Retrieved 2012-04-25.
  4. ^ a b c Mace, Jenny L., and Andrew Knight. 2024. "From the Backyard to Our Beds: The Spectrum of Care, Attitudes, Relationship Types, and Welfare in Non-Commercial Chicken Care" Animals 14, no. 2: 288, 10.3390/ani14020288