UrbanChicken.
Meet the latest in trendy pets: the urban chicken. Photo: 22280677@N07/Flickr The next time you hear clucking, it may not be coming from the TV in the kitchen or your neighbor's obnoxious clock that plays a different bird call each hour. According to a recent article in the Washington Post, keeping chickens as pets in urban and suburban settings is the newest trend in our nation's effort to "go green". "In cities across the United States, raising backyard poultry has suddenly become as chic as growing your own vegetables. It's all part of the back-to-the-land movement whose proponents want to save on grocery bills, take control of their food supply and reduce the carbon footprint ...