by Borderstan.com March 31, 2009 at 8:02 pm 3,121 0

Are chicken farms part of Washington's future? (Image: scienceblogs.com.)

Are chicken farms part of Washington’s future? (Image: scienceblogs.com.)

Maybe so… maybe not. Don’t rush out just yet to buy a chicken coop for your back patio. The question of whether we can raise domesticated chickens in DC as a hedge against total economic meltdown is not settled yet.

I ran across this headline today at in shaw (an historically gentrified blog): “Chickens in the City.”

Well. What did this mean? What chickens? Chickens in Washington? Has chicken farming become a problem that is bedeviling some Advisory Neighborhood Commission? Is this an issue pitting newly arrived country people against urban sophisticates?

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