From left, Reva Garcia Benét, 11, Niko Garcia Benét, 13, and Leo Benét, 4, stop to feed dried mealworms to chickens through a window cut out in a fence at Peter Thulson’s home in the Alamo Placita neighborhood in Denver on June 20, 2024. The residents host a chicken window happy hour on Thursdays where neighbors can pop by.
“Lonely, I thought something like that would be great,” Thulson said. “Turns out, everybody was hungry for one another’s company.” “It’s kind of like a sounding board for people in the neighborhood to get to know other people,” Williams, 79, said. “These are binding agents for the neighborhood.”“Our backyard, we like to feel, is our sanctuary in the city,” Williams said. “And I know many people in our neighborhood that do the same thing.”
For domestic honey bees, only two hives are allowed per lot, located in its rear third. Hives must be screened.costs $25, which allows the keeping of chickens, ducks and goats as pets or hobbies, as well as for educational purposes. The food can be kept for personal consumption by the resident.On Thursday evening, three excited children stood at Thulson’s chicken window, extending handfuls of dried mealworms to pecking hens.
After 15 years away, they returned to Colorado once their first child was born, initially moving to the University Park neighborhood. Then, in 1996, the couple settled into their Alamo Placita home, with three young kids in tow. He called his routine with his flock “fairly low maintenance” — providing water and food, mucking the coop and collecting eggs. Today, most of his hens are elderly, but three young chickens have started laying eggs.
A man walks his dog past a window cutout in a fence in the Alamo Placita neighborhood, so people can see their backyard chickens and feed them snacks in Denver on June 20, 2024. Colorado GOP spent $20,000 to boost its chairman’s congressional campaign, records show