Three chickens have come to roost at Victoria Court, Stretford, Trafford, as part of plans to go 'greener' (From Messenger Newspapers)

Three chickens have come to roost at Victoria Court, Stretford, Trafford, as part of plans to go 'greener'

12:00pm Friday 3rd July 2009

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STRETFORD tenants hatched a coup to bring three new residents to their complex.

Older Trafford Housing Trust residents at Victoria Court, in Stretford, welcomed three Rhode Island red chickens as part of plans to go ‘greener’.

Housed in a coop, built in a rarely used back garden, the chickens Henrietta, Victoria and Elizabeth, are literally earning their own keep.

Their organic eggs are sold to Victoria Court’s tenants for 20p each, with the cash put into a pot to pay for the chickens’ feed.

The feathered trio, who came to roost three months ago, are proving a hit with all ages as the scheme’s residents take their grandchildren to feed them while on visits too.

Scheme manager, Sheila Mcglone, said: “The residents came up with the idea after a visit to a gardeners’ fair where they saw a small chicken pen exhibited.

“We did have to check that we could keep the chickens at the scheme under the terms of the tenancy agreement, however, but there was no problem. The chickens have proved a big hit and have helped create a new lease of life for a little used part of the scheme too.”

Victoria Court’s green-fingered tenants are also in the first year of cultivating a vegetable patch where residents can help themselves to beetroot, squash, new potatoes, carrots and rhubarb.

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