Durham has jumped on the backyard chicken bandwagon. Last night the city council approved an amendment to its planning rules that allows people to raise chickens – and slaughter them. From the News & Observer (emphasis is mine):
The amendment stipulates:
* Backyard chickens, their eggs and their waste may be kept for personal use only — no sales;
* Chickens may be slaughtered, as long as the dispatching “is conducted in a humane and sanitary manner” and out of public view;
* Stored chicken droppings have to be kept in waterproof containers;
* No more than two cubic feet of chicken droppings may be kept for use as unprocessed fertilizer; any more than that has to be discarded or composted.
I thought I knew where chicken nuggets came from. I didn’t realize it could be the neighbor’s backyard.
