Thousands of city dwellers are rearing chickens at home - thanks to celebrity chefs who have highlighted the plight of battery-farmed hens and championed locally grown food.

In an echo of the popular Seventies sitcom The Good Life, urban families across Britain are turning over their back gardens to hen coops.

Sales have rocketed since Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s campaigning TV series were broadcast last year.

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My mum always used to keep chickens at the end of her garden so its nothing new I think its the rats and mice it would attract that puts me off.

If you have grain around it attracts all rodents, even the squirrels, I hate them all.

Rats, Grey squirrels Feral pigeons, have no useful purpose on this earth. Bacteria are also living things, but we are glad to kill them if infected by them.