Connecticut promotes raising chicken in the backyard

A number of towns in the US are permitting homeowners to raise chickens in their own backyards and, in order to promote the novel concept, a community college in Connecticut is offering a crash course to cash-in on this growing fad. The two-hour course comes for USD 55 and it will be offered on March 7 and on March 12.
This has been reported in ibnlive.com dated 28 February 2016.

In March 2015, Manchester town in Connecticut had modified its zoning law to allow residents to raise up to 12 hens. The planning and zoning regulation does not include roosters, and says that single-family homes can raise chickens if they provide necessary shelter.
However, while in Manchester the new chicken law permits to raise backyard chickens, the laws for other communities vary depending on where you live but, the fad is catching on as more and more people want to know where their food comes from.
The two-day course offered by the Manchester Community College (MCC) will cover-everything from purchasing hens, where to keep them, what food they eat, and how to get them to lay eggs. The chickens lay eggs that are fresher than anything one can get in a grocery store. The eggs one gets in the grocery stores are weeks old and sometimes months old.
The course will provide participants with information about what to consider before purchasing the first flock and how-to information for creating and maintaining the living quarters for birds.


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