The Free Press, Mankato, MN

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July 28, 2008

Your View: Chickens in city would bring problems

Reading Becky Rossow’s recent My View surprised me that she has a degree in environmental studies and suggests chicken guano as fertilizer. Has she never seen what bird droppings do to the paint on a car?

I grew up on a full gamut farm and the only manure that needed to be aged for breakdown was chicken and horse. Even then we wore masks when we cleaned the chicken coop so we didn’t inhale possible diseases.

I find it shocking that people are looking to raise chickens in cities now — does avian flu not concern them? Do they know what it costs to feed chickens properly? Do they not know that eggs take on the flavor of what the chicken eats if you feed it scraps?

I think the city would be setting itself up for more trouble than it can envision.

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