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Village Homesteading Mundelein will host a film screening of Mad City Chickens at Mavericks Bar and Grill on Saturday, December 1, 2012 at 5 p.m at 2061 W Maple Ave, Mundelein, IL. Movie looking at the people who keep urban chickens in backyards.

Growing numbers of pet chicken enthusiasts affirm the latter, though heated arguments grind their way through layers of governments nationwide. But, one longtime pet chicken hobbyist strongly supports the pet theory and has set out to prove it!

Chicken expert, Patricia Foreman, discusses her best-selling book, City Chicks: Keeping Micro-flocks of Chickens as Garden Helpers, Compost Makers, Bio-recyclers and Local Food Suppliers, with host, June Stoyer, of The Organic View Radio Show.

A new home-farming trend sweeping North America is seeing chicken coops and small flocks of chickens appearing in suburban backyards. In response, Handcrafted Chicken Coops is offering affordable, portable chicken coops to backyard farmers.

A writer of thrifty living offers up her first chicken egg on ebay for $727.94, the amount of money she has spent to date on the upkeep of this “thrifty food source” and the true cost of this solitary egg.

As more people raise backyard chickens in a struggling economy, CityCoops offers several affordable and easy-to-build coop construction plans to help chicken owners give their flock a comfortable and safe place to live.