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Andy G. Schneider, the national radio personality known as the <a href=”http://atlantachickenwhisperer.blogspot.com/” target=”_blank”>Chicken Whisperer</a> plans to give away 500 baby chicks on Saturday, April 11<sup>th</sup> starting at 8:00 AM at the Greenwoods on Green Street restaurant in Roswell, Georgia, located at 1087 Green Street 30075. The Chicken Whisperer’s plan is to promote the keeping of backyard poultry and to get folks thinking about growing more of their own food with this “Chicken Stimulus Package.”</p>
<p>Schneider, host of the nationally broadcast radio show <i>Backyard Poultry with the Chicken Whisperer</i>, and his station manager at <a href=”http://www.radiosandysprings.com/index.php?id=1″ target=”_blank”>Radio Sandy Springs</a> came up with the idea after the city of Roswell <a href=”http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/northfulton/stories/2009/03/17/roswell_chicken_dispute.html” target=”_blank”>went after one of its citizens</a> for keeping pet chickens in his backyard. According to Schneider, the big chicken give away has the support of citizens and former lawmakers alike.</p>
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<p>All baby chicks have been donated by hatcheries across America. Only two chicks will be given away to each family and they will come with a starter bag of feed, care instructions, and a map to North Fulton Feed and Seed in Alpharetta where they can pick up additional supplies. “This is our very own small economic stimulus package for the people of Atlanta,” the Chicken Whisperer says. “In the middle of layoffs, foreclosures, and a poor economy we want to teach people how to become a little more self-sufficient, and keeping backyard pet poultry is a good start.”</p>
<p> As a huge fan of backyard poultry, I am pleased to see that the Chicken Whisperer has been able to put the chicken feed right where the municipal beak is … so-to-speak. With any luck at all, the Chicken Stimulus Package will stimulate local lawmakers to rethink the whole topic of backyard poultry in the Atlanta metropolitan area. Folks, it’s time to take back your right to produce clean safe food … and to keep chickens as pets, of course.</p>
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<a href=”http://www.grit.com/biographies/oscar-h-will” target=_self>Hank Will</a>
<em> raises hair sheep, heritage cattle and many varieties of open-pollinated corn with his wife, Karen, on their rural Osage County, Kansas farm. His home life is a perfect complement to his professional life as editor in chief at GRIT and Capper’s Farmer magazines. Connect with him on </em>
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