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Coop rebates and chicken-keeping classes: subsidise resident-owned backyard hens

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The municipality does not distribute hens. Instead it subsidises hen coops (a rebate) and runs free chicken-keeping classes, so residents keep their own backyard hens that eat food scraps. Removes the authority's animal-welfare liability; fits places where keeping hens is alread…

City of Austin / Austin Resource Recovery· City
Coop rebate per resident75USD
Chicken-keeping class duration~1hour
$75·City of Austin / Austin Resource Recovery (municipal waste department), zero-waste programme· 1 source
Author AvatarArnaud Gissinger

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