The City of Lansing is examining how a new Ingham County ordinance that allows for chicken raising in non-agricultural urban areas should be handled within city limits.
According to excerpts from the article:
Lansing resident Dale Huber had not announced his three new chicks to his neighbors yet when one did the job for him.
“When
they are smaller, they’re not as smart as they are when they’re older.
One of them actually got out and there was a knock at the door and
here’s the neighbor holding a chicken and he goes, ‘I think this is
yours, we see them in the backyard every once and a while,’” Huber said.
Huber, who grew up on a farm, purchased his three hens last March and began raising them in his backyard.
The Ingham County ordinance allows
nonagricultural properties in urban areas to keep up to five hens,
which cannot be slaughtered an the property.
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