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Why More City Dwellers Are Raising Chickens
16 minutes Posted Sep 9, 2026 at 8:06 pm.
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Keeping chickens in city backyards is becoming more popular. WNYC’s Morning Edition producer Verónica Del Valle visits a Jersey City backyard farm to see what urban chicken keeping actually looks like and the rules to know before starting a flock of your own. 
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