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Winnipeg chicken flocks may still run a “fowl” of the city’s exotic animal bylaw, but activists hope city changes rules
There were a few ruffled feathers at Winnipeg’s city hall when a group came to lobby for the right to keep laying hens in their urban backyards, but city officials are studying the issue. One woman was ordered out of council chambers when she produced a live chicken during a meeting of the city’s protectionOfficials say the Animal Care Program meets consumers’ demand for increased accountability to ensure livestock are properly cared for
Chicken producers in Manitoba are about to see more comprehensive audits of their farms as the result of a nationwide Animal Care Program. But for most chicken producers, the program won’t change how they raise their birds. “We’ve been managing the animal care on an informal basis up until now,” said Jake Wiebe, chairman ofThe Doerksen’s of Blumenort become the 46th Manitoba farm family honoured by the Red River Exhibition
The Red River Exhibition Association (RREA) has named the family behind Doerksen Poultry Farm Ltd., of Blumenort as the 2012 Farm Family of the Year. Orville and Beverly Doerksen, and their children Ken and Lorisa Wall, Alan and Myra Brydges and Joel and Christine Doerksen, join a distinguished list of 46 other Manitoba families who
