Portland: Build This Retirement Home for Chickens!

This New York Times story about retirement homes for aging chickens covered everything but actual retirement homes for aging chickens. (Do you even have to ask where this is happening?) When you run a piece titled "Retirement Homes Beckon for City Chickens," isn't there a reasonable expectation that the account will include an old-person's home at about 1/100th the scale, full of slow-moving, raspy-crowing poultry? But no, it turns out these birds are "retiring" to farms, which is pretty much where you'd expect them to go.

To fix this glaring oversight of America's paper of record, we've created a schematic for an actual hospice for old fowl, with all the comforts the elderly deserve. Now that it's out there, Portlanders, make it happen! (Key below.)