Sustainable Living with Pet Chickens

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Chickens not only make great pets, they also contribute to a more sustainable lifestyle. In this day of $3.00 a gallon gas and an economy predicated on low fossil fuel prices, there’s a trend starting to take root. Call it green living. Call it self sustainability. Call it tree-hugging. Whatever you call it, more and more people want to be more connected to nature, where things come from and how things are made. We are passengers of this planet and as of right now, we don’t have another good alternative home, so we all need to start taking better care of it.

In addition, I don’t like being at the mercy of some large corporation that’s decided what’s best for their rich shareholders and not the customers that keep them in business. My heating oil company “rewards” me for buying hundreds of gallons of oil before the winter season even starts so that I can be “protected” from price fluctuations (Katrina etc.) Why should something so essential – heating our homes – be so susceptible to variables out of our control? Keeping backyard chickens take us one step closer to living sustainably. I’ll describe the micro-ecosystem that our 9 chickens supply to help us live more “green”.  Continue Reading