COOP (Chicken Owners Outside Philadelphia)

In the News

Upper Dublin considering ordinance to regulate backyard chickens [December 31, 2011, Ambler Gazette]
The Humane Society of the United States: Historic agreement reached for nation's egg-laying hens [July 7, 2011, Humane Society of the United State]
Plymouth Whitemarsh hosts environmentally-inspired expo [February 3, 2011, Times Herald]
Chicken Vanishes, Heartbreak Ensues [February 2, 2011, The New York Times]
'Beautiful Yetta': A Yiddish Chicken With Chutzpah [August 14, 2010, NPR]
Babysitters for urban farmers' backyard chickens [July 23, 2010, CNNMoney.com]
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? [July 14, 2010, msnbc.com]
Fowl Fans See Golden Eggs in Catering to Pet-Chicken Market [July 8, 2010, Wall Street Journal]
Postcard from New Tripoli [July 12, 2010, Time Magazine]
PETA Calls for Prosecution of Firefighter, Cop in Reported Killing of Pet Chicken [April 14, 2010, PETA Media Center]
Eggciting News!!! [April 7, 2010, Mother Earth News]
Video: Mom Upset Over Pet Chicken Being Killed, Eaten [April 6, 2010, NBC Philadelphia]
Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road in Lower Merion? [April 6, 2010, Save Ardmore Coalition]
Fowl play: Pet chicken killed in Philly suburb [April 6, 2010, NewsTimes]
Chicken Murder Ruffles Feathers [April 6, 2010, NBC Philadelphia]
Missing L. Merion chicken meets a violent end [April 6, 2010, Philadelphia Daily News]
Poultry with a pedigree: Babied chickens & their eggs are flying off the shelves [April 1, 2010, Philadelphia Daily News]
Shell Game: Government Hatches Secret Program to Lay Eggs - WSJ.com [January 13, 2010, Wall Street Journal]
Suburban henhouses may prove hard to block [January 2, 2010, Winnipeg Free Press]
Grandpa hacked dead over missing chickens [December 8, 2009, Tempo (Manila, Philippines)]
Hundreds flock to City Chickens Coop Tour [December 5, 2009, KOLD News 13]
Tour spotlights urban chicken farming [December 3, 2009, East Valley Tribune (Phoenix)]
Officer Uses Taser On Pit Bull Chasing Chickens [November 16, 2009, Central Florida News 13]
Trading places: Chicken swaps growing in popularity [November 15, 2009, EagleTribune.com, North Andover, MA]
Chickens come home to roost in backyards around the USA [November 9, 2009, USATODAY.com]
About the woman who stared at chickens [November 9, 2009, Charleston Daily Mail]
Witherspoon spent $1,200 to get a chicken's leg fixed [September 26, 2009, The Economic Times]
Politicians Rule the Roost on Raising Urban Chickens [September 10, 2009, NBC Connecticut]
Book Looks at Raising Chickens in the City [September 9, 2009, The New York Times]
Chickens in the city? SoBu mulls backyard flocks [August 27, 2009, Burlington Free Press]
Can You Make A Dinosaur From A Chicken? [August 26, 2009, redOrbit]
Dangerous Urban Chicken Craze Has Legs [August 18, 2009, NBC Miami]
They're laying eggs at an Oakland restaurant [August 18, 2009, L.A. Times]
Move on to legalize chickens in the city [August 18, 2009, Journal and Courier (Indiana)]
Chicken ordinance dead for now in Grandview [August 17, 2009, Columbus Local News]
Chickens may come home to roost in St. Paul [August 15, 2009, Star Tribune]
Norwalk couple loses bid to keep chickens within city limits [August 13, 2009, Des Moines Register]
Elizabethtown resident's chicken proposal ruffles feathers [August 11, 2009, Intelligencer Journal]
Commission to consider chicken amendment [August 5, 2009, Traverse City Record-Eagle]
Council says 'no' to chickens in neighborhoods [August 5, 2009, The Hastings Star-Gazette]
Kalamazoo is going to the birds: 'There's something about having ... chickens' - MLive.com [August 4, 2009, Kalamazoo Gazette]
Keeping Their Eggs in Their Backyard Nests [August 3, 2009, The New York Times]
Mr. Clucky May Be Evicted From Owner's Fla. Condo [July 31, 2009, AP]
Feathering Her Nest [July 16, 2009, The New York Times]
Some City Folk Are Mad as Wet Hens When Chickens Come Home to Roost [July 15, 2009, Wall Street Journal]
Backyard chicken lovers flock to new group [July 13, 2009, LoHud.com (NY Lower Hudson Valley)]
City Chickens! [July 9, 2009, Philadelphia Weekly]
Keeping poultry in cities: Checking out the chicks [June 18, 2009, The Economist]
What's a Henweigh? [June 11, 2009, Urban Direction]
Chicks are for Peeps [June 10, 2009, Philadelphia City Paper]
Anything goes in Miami Beach, except Mr. Clucky [June 7, 2009, Comcast.net]
Backyard Coops Make Chicks Chic [May 21, 2009, All Things Considered]
Family ordered to get rid of pet chickens [May 20, 2009, UPI]
Hot chicks [May 18, 2009, Washington Post]
Urban chicken movement taking roost in KC area [May 10, 2009, Kansas City Star]
Cities Consider Ordinances for Urban Livestock [April 29, 2009, The New York Times]
Chicks and the city [April 9, 2009, Philadelphia Inquirer]
In Huntington, Winning the Right to Keep Chickens [February 18, 2009, The New York Times]
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There ain't nobody here but us chickens [July 10, 2008, Springfield Sun]
Austinites' backyard chicken flocks grow [July 7, 2008, American-Statesman (Austin, Texas)]
Pluck for pets that cluck [June 16, 2008, Houston Chronicle]
Behold: Charlotte's chicken underground [June 16, 2008, Charlotte Observer]
Ann Arbor Council OKs backyard chickens [June 2, 2008, Ann Arbor News]
Cheep thrills — chicks for rent [March 21, 2008, Philadelphia Inquirer]
Loose Chickens Force School Closure [February 11, 2008, philly.com]