Residents in the rural Township of Madoc would need about seven-and-a-half Canadian football fields of property to legally keep backyard chickens. Some residents say it’s time the bylaws changed.

10. You may become a hobby farmer Chickens are known to be the gateway animal to hobby farming — Cowans says you may find you also want ducks and geese, then goats, then pigs and so on.

The man is holding several dead chickens in each hand and the woman is balancing a basket of dead chickens on her head. This photograph was taken by Alexander Wetmore, noted ornithologist and sixth ...