Because you want to produce your own eggs; because you want to produce your own meat, because you have an organic garden and you want to use a chicken to keep the bugs under control and also provide you with excellent fertilizer; because youre looking for an unusual pet.

These are all very good reasons for wanting to raise chickens and each one has similar and unique needs. Hopefully, the chart has led you to which chicks are best for you to purchase. But you arent ready to have them shipped or to pick them up just yet. Theres some preparation of where your chickens will stay that has to be completed before they become a part of the family.

One Other Reason
Theres one other reason to raise chickens in a city or urban setting that you might not have thought of: it helps the environment and its a better life for the chicken than being raised in a processing plant.

Birds in processing plants are ways to an end the more ways, the better the end so packing plants end to end with birds means more money. It also mean poorer birds. One of the by products of being a chicken is the moisture they give off has an ammonia smell if youve ever been surrounded by a bunch of babies in need of a serious diaper change, you can imagine the scent. Now imagine if you were a chicken, only a few inches in height, surrounded by hundreds of your brethren in a cramped placeand you all were in need of a diaper change.

Since a chicken is going to be born anyway, better to be born and raised in a place that allows space, air, and more congenial conditions for the few years or weeks of life youre going to have.