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Belgium offers chickens to waste-cutting households

Residents of a Belgian town are to be offered chickens as part of a campaign to reduce household waste.

The town of Mouscron has fifty pairs of chickens that it will distribute to families with sufficient space to keep the birds in their gardens. Those who take part in the scheme will be given basic instruction on chicken-keeping, and must agree not to eat the chickens for at least two years.

Local officials are stressing that applicants could gain a supply of free, fresh eggs.

The town council’s environment department is building on the success of a previous distribution of chickens, officials told Belgium’s La Derniere Heure.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .