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2. Urban chicken keeping - Wikipedia

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   Urban keeping of chickens as pets, for eggs, meat, or for eating pests is popular in urban and suburban areas.Some people sell the eggs for side income.. Keeping chickens in an urban environment is a type of urban agriculture, important in the local food movement, which is the growing practice of cultivating, processing and distributing food in or around a village, town or city. [1]

3. Poultry farming - Wikipedia

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   A chicken coop or hen house is a structure where chickens or other fowl are kept safe and secure. There may be nest boxes and perches in the house. There may be nest boxes and perches in the house. There is a long-standing controversy over the basic need for a chicken coop.

4. Chicken tractor - Wikipedia

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   A home-built chicken tractor, without wheels, built to house a small number of hens. A chicken tractor (sometimes called an ark) is a movable chicken coop lacking a floor. Chicken tractors may also house other kinds of poultry. Most chicken tractors are a lightly built A-frame which one person can drag about the yard. It may have wheels on one ...

5. Free-range eggs - Wikipedia

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   Photograph of two hen egg yolks, one from a commercial egg operation and one from a free-range backyard hen. The yolk of the backyard egg is bright orange. Free-range eggs may be broader in definition and have more of an orange colour to their yolks [ 30 ] owing to the abundance of greens and insects in the birds' diet if actually allowed ...

6. Building cooperative - Wikipedia

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   A building co-operative is a co-operative housing corporation where individuals or families work together to directly construct their own homes in a cooperative fashion. Members of this type of co-operative purchase building materials in bulk and co-operate with other members of the co-op during the construction phase of the co-operative.

7. Battery cage - Wikipedia

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   In February 2016, 90 percent of egg-laying hens in Canada lived in battery cages. That month, negotiations between egg farmers, animal welfarists, and the government resulted in a moratorium on construction of new battery cages from 1 April 2017 and a gradual 15-year phaseout of battery cages towards enriched cage or cage-free systems by 2036. [23]