About Poules en Ville ( Urban Chicken Coops)

Poules en Ville is a registered company, founded in December 2015, in Terrebonne, Quebec, Canada by Louise Arbour  whose mission is to provide products (pre-assembled chicken coops) and services related to urban hens, and to promote all aspects of keeping laying hens in urban areas in a safe and responsible way. Poules en Ville distributes chicken poultry health products. The line is Chick’N Swell has several products distributed in Canada and USA. Author of the book : Des poules dans ma cour,  a complete guide on how to care and keep backyard chickens in North America. The book is under translation to English and should publish in 2025.

The primary activity of Poules en Ville is to educate the population on the safe pleasures of keeping laying hens in urban areas through training, conferences, webinars and book writing. Poules en Ville also sells products such as a pre-assembled chicken house, automatic door, various products and accessories. Another important activity of Poules en Ville is to assist, accompany and voluntarily support citizens in legalizing and supervising the keeping of chickens in their cities. In this regard, it has set up numerous Facebook groups to facilitate citizen collaboration. Poules en Ville provides training workshops on the care and custody of hens. In addition, Poules en ville works to inform and bridge the gap between all stakeholders. With the blog, the website, the Facebook page, the newsletter etc., Poules en Ville tries to connect companies working in the poultry, grain, veterinary etc. sector.

Poules en Ville, it’s thousands of people following on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/poulesenville/ in Canada and throughout the French-speaking world, there are thousands of followers and an opportunity for partners to promote their products or sponsor Poules en Ville and have their logo added to the Poules en Ville website.

Poules en ville is also dedicated to promoting sustainable development. Because without concrete actions, we jeopardize the survival and well-being of future generations. Keeping laying hens is part of this vision of soil regeneration through composting as well as better management of waste and organic matter.

Chickens are part of the mosaic of sustainable development and promote the return to a better management of our food independence, nutrition and local purchase. The United Nations has defined sustainable development as follows: “Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

With all of its partners working in related sectors related to laying hens, Poules en Ville offers as much information as possible in one place. A diversified and complete crossroads of information.

Given the growing expansion of the practice in recent years, it becomes crucial to ensure that citizens can find good references, veterinarians, adequate supplies and resources in French, adapted to Quebec, as well as user-friendly training.

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Law 54 tabled in December 2015 aims at the legal protection of animals as well as their well-being with respect to their living conditions. It is even more important to educate citizens and our municipal representatives in the implementation of safe and animal-friendly practices. The laying hen has species-specific needs.
It is important to reproduce its natural environment in a fair way and to provide it with an adequate environment and food. The hen is a very active animal and works all day long scratching, searching and digging the ground for supplements to its food. It is omnivorous.

With the constant requests from citizens to their municipalities to legislate, supervise and allow the practice, it is imperative to clearly define it, educate and make accessible all information relating to care, nutrition, behavior, setting up the henhouse, eggs, maintenance, biosecurity, etc.
It is easy to keep chickens and they require little time. Five minutes a day for the basic routine!

With more than 200 species to protect, citizens contribute to the preservation of rare and endangered species.
The laying hen is endearing, pleasant, fascinating to observe and gives us eggs of incomparable quality. It is a very pleasant pet. It helps reduce our table waste, gets rid of pests, entertains us and brings happiness to any family that includes chickens in their lives. It reconnects us with the essence of life, the foundations of nature and its energy is beneficial. They bring the community closer together, promote good neighbourliness, sharing, education for children, etc.

One day, in the near future, cities may encourage their citizens who wish to do so to not only purchase water barrels, composters and a free tree in the spring, but also a few laying hens who sign up for green programs.
Wheeled henhouses containing a hundred chickens are increasingly used to fertilize permaculture soils such as André Desmarais’ Four-Time Farm in Hemmingford. The city of Montpelier, Vermont uses more than 1,200 hens to process waste for composting.

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