In 2013, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) studied urban chicken keeping in four major cities (Denver, Los Angeles, Miami, and New York City) and discovered that less than 1% of households had backyard chickens. The study however further revealed that though only 1% had chickens another 4% of the study's respondents reported that they planned to get backyard chickens in the next five years. Interestingly, slightly more than half of the study's respondents said that they thought...
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