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March 2008 
Boulder Backyard Chickens ~ local food resource
Posted on Dec 22nd, 2007
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Boulder Community
Boulder Community
Photo by Paul Aiken
One of Kelly Simmons' New Hampshire Reds in her chicken pen.
Photo by Paul Aiken
Kelly Simmons gives her flock of chickens and ducks a special treat of greens as she tends to them behind her Boulder home.
Backyard Chickens
source: Daily Camera
Last year about this time, Kelly Simmons was perusing hatchery catalogs, looking at various types of chickens with an eye to raising them at her home in Martin Acres-- a city neighborhood characterized by '50s-style ranch homes and small yards.
A year later, she's collecting eggs, although not as many as she did last summer when she was gathering as many as 19 a day from her nine chickens and four ducks. Simmons, who teaches classes through the nonprofit Boulder Sustainability Education Center, says keeping the chickens is a logical extension of her large garden, a way to be closely involved in the food she and her family eat.
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