Canada: Feelings ruffled by backyard chicken coops in Calgary
We are not a farming community
By Catherine Ford
Calgary Herald
Apr 01, 2026
Excerpt:
The Winston Heights-Mountview Community Association has plans for the city’s first “chicken school,” which involves a coop large enough to house 30 hens, although at first there will only be 12. The association’s secretary, Jile Meyn, is quoted as hoping the program will become a “resource for educating community engagement and ongoing support for Calgarians interested in urban hens.”
Since 2022, Calgary has allowed chickens in the city, leading me to believe no one on city council has ever had to put up with a flock of feral chickens squawking, crowing and generally making a noisy and intrusive invasion of one’s space.
Calgary allows an individual to own two to four hens. No roosters are permitted, although I suspect that will eventually be challenged and the city will look the other way. As such things go, there will be petitions and pleas for the ban on roosters to be overturned, and — eventually — it will be, only to be surrounded with rules and regulations and a lengthy process of acceptance, as it is with urban chickens today.
The question is not the lengthy process this city enshrines, but why any of this so-called “urban farming” is permitted.
No Calgarian is forbidden from moving to the country; no one is stopped from choosing to become a farmer.
I choose city life. I’d like that choice to be respected.
Read the complete article here.
Source: https://cityfarmer.info/canada-feelings-ruffled-by-backyard-chicken-coops-in-calgary/
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