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City Backyards Become Homes to Chickens and Their Eggs
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Fiona, 8, and her sister Kylie, 6, collect eggs every morning from the chickens in their backyard, part of a wave of families from Springfield to St. Louis keeping hens after that summer's salmonella recall made the eggs at the grocery store feel a lot less trustworthy.
Two sets of hands
The Martins built the coop and kept the flock going. The daily egg run belongs to the girls.
Why we picked this one
Everyone in this story talks about the eggs like they're the point. They're not. The point is two kids who know exactly where breakfast came from because they walked out and got it themselves, in slippers, before anyone else was up.
Find a coop, your own or a neighbor's, and let your kid reach into the nest box for the warm one. Carry it inside carefully. Crack it into a pan before anyone else in the house is awake.
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Where it happened:
St. Louis, Missouri
You don't need six chickens or a two-story coop. You need one kid, one nest box, and five minutes before the bus.