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An Urban chicken or backyard chicken is a chicken kept on a residential lot. The primary reasons for keeping chickens are the food and income made by selling the eggs and meat. Other reasons include use in ceremonies and as gifts. Keeping chickens in an urban environment is associated with the “Urban Agriculture Movement”, which is the growing practice of cultivating, processing and distributing food in, or around (peri-urban), a village, town or city.〔Bailkey, M. and J. Nasr. 2000. From Brownfields to Greenfields: Producing Food in North American Cities. Community Food Security News. Fall 1999/Winter 2000:6〕 According to National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service and experts in backyard agriculture, there are a host of personal benefits associated with Urban Agriculture and keeping chickens in one’s own backyard. ==History== Keeping livestock in cities has been common throughout history and is still practiced in many parts of the world. For example, 50,000 pigs were being kept in Manhattan in 1859. But local ordinances were created to limit this, owing to the noise and smell nuisance, and these were relaxed only in times of war when the urban populace was encouraged to provide food for itself. Urban relief gardens played an important role in sustaining large populations of Americans during economic depressions.〔landarch.rutgers.edu/fac_staff/Laura_Lawson/assets/pdf/UGPlecture.pdf〕 War gardens played an important role in the nationwide effort to help win both World War I and World War II.〔 These victory gardens made gardening a patriotic activity and introduced gardening as an activity for everyone, not just those too poor to buy their own food. Later, in the late 1960s and 1970s, community gardening started to make a comeback as a hobby. Organic gardening, urban animal husbandry, and community farms became popular and many cities around the country started community gardening programs for their residents.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Urban chicken」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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