Backyard chicken advocates take up the cause in Iowa City | GazetteOnline.com – Cedar Rapids, Iowa City
Apr 8th, 2009 | By Fritz Nordengren | Category: Animals and LivestockAn effort is under way to change Iowa City law to allow residents to keep chickens in their backyards.
Iowa City resident Stacey Driscoll started an online petition Tuesday calling on the city to allow people to keep up to five hens, no roosters, in residential areas.
The self-described avid backyard gardener said she’d heard of people in other urban areas raising chickens and wanted to do the same here to get fresh eggs but soon discovered she could not.
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having a few chickens in the back yard is not going to leave a mess as bad as the geese do in the parks and along the river . better listening to a few chickens then the dog across the street bark ever time she goes out side. i lived on a farm most all my life chicken shitt is a great fertilizer good for flowers and garden and your grass. sell the chicken shit sell the eggs eat the chicken how could you go wrong.