Cock-a-Doodle Do or Don't?

We're all for hopping on the localvore train, but is raising farm animals on your back porch taking things a bit too far? Not according to some city residents, who have taken to raising chickens outside their urban households, a practice which is perfectly legal in Chicago.

Today WBBM featured an East Garfield Park couple who keeps a homemade chicken coop with four egg-laying chickens inside their condominium garden. To Tara Keating and her husband, the chickens are "like pets with eggs."

Rest assured, while housing chickens within the city is allowed, slaughtering them is not. These chickens are used solely for their egg production. Still, as WBBM points out, would you really want your next door neighbor keeping chickens considering their general noisiness, stinkiness, and constant molting? We're pretty sure we prefer our chickens a little more backwoods than backyard.

Photo by hddod.