What Chicken-Keepers look like

REAL fresh eggs, inexpensively. The payoff.

There's an unfortunate stereotype about the kind of people who, despite living in the city or suburbs, wants to keep chickens and enjoy healthier, safer food at lower cost instead of just sitting slack-jawed in front of the TV all night and getting their eggs from the Sprawl-Mart like they're supposed to.

The stereotype is that these strange beings who want an inexpensive source of protein that doesn't depend on imported oil and on keeping battery chickens in hellish condition are the kind of people who put couches on the porch and cars up on blocks with Confederate flags in the windows.

As a little reality check, the pix above are some of your neighbors who live in the Salem residential-ag zoned area (and can, therefore, already keep chickens legally).