Learning from Chickens

This may be a good time to bring up this excellent article that I read last week, from an author that knows his chickens. Some interesting bits from the conclusion:

In today's economic climate, efficiency and competitiveness are the guiding principles of business, of life; more product faster, while taking up less space. But are these concepts in our interests at all? Efficiency without ethics is psychopathic. And how much cleverer than chickens are we, ultimately?

So what do I get from chickens? Simple lessons like these: competition without co-operation is nonsense; you can't win by simply eradicating all the opposition - that's a pyrrhic victory. In life, winning really isn't everything - it isn't even anything. Taking part is all.

The next question, then: How can we raise a chicken or two on the roof of our six-story apartment building?