Two Diamond Valley women don’t want to ruffle any feathers, but they are lobbying town councils with a proposal they say is a healthy benefit to their communities.
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Two Diamond Valley women don’t want to ruffle any feathers, but they are lobbying town councils with a proposal they say is a healthy benefit to their communities.
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What was a source of food for one Okotoks family has landed them afoul of Okotoks’ pet bylaws.
Okotoks resident Jennifer Bailey has been ordered to get rid of four hens she has had in her backyard since July.
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A local woman who is trying to drum up support to allow citizens to raise chickens within city limits says there are many misconceptions about the idea.
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Why did the chicken cross the road? Perhaps it didn’t have a pedway.
After more than six years on the books, construction plans for a crossing from the Enjoy Centre to Lois Hole Centennial Provincial Park have stalled.
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Red Deer will allow chickens to roost in backyards for at least another year.
By a vote of 7-1 today, Red Deer city council opened city backyards to chicken coops in a formal pilot project that runs until March 31, 2014.
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Backyard chickens may be here to stay.
On Tuesday, Red Deer city council will consider starting a formal urban chicken project, a bylaw to allow up to four chickens per household, a bylaw that prohibits backyard chickens or explore legal options to allow chickens as a permitted accessory use.
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For nearly a year Charity Briere has enjoyed fresh eggs from her backyard.
She is one Red Deer resident who is part of a pilot project that began in earnest in February 2012 to see how urban chicken farms would work.
City council approved a pilot project looking into urban chickens at a meeting in late Febrary 2012.
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EDMONTON – Crystal Sherris will hide her five hens at one or two undisclosed Edmonton homes before city bylaw officers arrive Wednesday to seize them.
Sherris said she received a letter from the city warning her the officers would come by her Bonnie Doon-area home Jan. 23 to seize her backyard chickens, since a bylaw bans the birds from residential areas. Sherris won’t be home, and neither will her chickens, but Sherris said a friend might greet the officers in a surprise costume.
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