Tag: chickens

Maltreatment of chickens; municipal composting good for the state

Last-minute cage bill harms chickens Regarding “Dispute over chicken cages brings debate back to lawmakers” (News, June 14), some lawmakers, at the behest of one company, have rushed through a last-minute bill to postpone one of Rhode Island’s most important laws addressing animal cruelty. The law, passed overwhelmingly in 2018, simply required egg companies to […]

Dozens of chickens escape into Brooklyn. N.Y., road

May 6 (UPI) — Dozens of live chickens escaped onto the streets of Brooklyn, N.Y., on Monday when the doors of a cargo truck came open during transit. The New York Police Department said the rear doors of the truck started spilling caged chickens into the roadway on Old Fulton Street, near Front Street, and […]

Family fighting keep chickens as pets in Waxhaw neighborhood

A Union County family that was fined for keeping chickens as pets has scored a big win. The family was originally located in a Waxhaw neighborhood. However, neighborhood rules said they couldn’t own poultry, but they could have household pets as long as you don’t make money off of them. The family in this case […]

Why chickens probably crossed the Silk Road

The mystery of what came first, the chicken or the egg has generally been solved–it was the egg. However, some questions remain about how well chickens were dispersed in the ancient world, as some wild bird bones have been misidentified as domesticated chicken bones. With the help of new technology, a recent analysis of eggshell […]

Cannabis, chickens and a line too long

Earlier this month the Sturgis Journal ran two stories that would have had old-time newsboys peddling papers on the street shouting, “Extra, extra read all about it!” It was banner-headline news about cannabis in Michigan — and chickens in Sturgis. But first a word about our new state slogan: YOU CAN IN MICHIGAN. Forget about […]