The Backyard Chicken Fight: How Keeping Chickens in Your Yard is Ruffling Feathers Across the Nation

Journalist and chicken-owner Gretchen Anderson chronicles the stories of people who are fighting City Hall for the right to own chickens. Find out how hen-keeping is ruffling feathers across the country. Also, learn the secrets to raising a healthy flock in your own backyard.

Gretchen Anderson is an award-winning humor columnist, author, and former television news anchor/reporter. Her news stories have been carried on NBC, ABC, and CNN around the globe. She has been published in various magazines and newspapers, and her humor columns are included on www.theindnews.com. She is the co-author of a book of poetry, and The Backyard Chicken Fight is her first book. She lives in Eagle, Idaho, with her husband, children, and a loud collection of chickens, dogs, fish, and hamsters, much to the alarm of her homeowner's association.