Eglu recognised in US as spurring the backyard poultry boom

laurmurf · January 17, 2009

U.S. City Dwellers Flock to Raising Chickens

an article reproduced on the Feathered Families website sites Omlet's eglus with spurring the keeping of backyard flocks:

After the trend first gained popularity in London, England, with the invention of the "eglu" chicken house about ten years ago, large numbers of city dwellers began to raise chickens in the U.S. cities of Seattle and Portland, said Jac Smit, president of the Urban Agriculture Network. "It's no longer something kinky or interesting," Smit said. "The ‘chicken underground' has really spread so widely and has so much support."

Within the past five years, the trend has expanded to cities where raising hens was already legal, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago. "Chicken has become the symbol, a mascot even, of the local food movement," said Owen Taylor of New York City, who knows of at least 30 community gardens that raise poultry, mostly for their eggs. One Brooklyn home has raised upward of 50 hens. "We're the biggest city in the country, so to have it here I think blows people's minds."

http://www.featheredfamilies.com/news.php?id=244

Well done Omlet