Chicken Ordinance Takes First Step
Village Board considers year-long pilot program allowing five citizens to keep chickens in their yard. Proposed day care center runs into citizen opposition.
A pilot program permitting residents to keep chickens in a coop in their yard passed its first step to becoming law during Monday’ regularly scheduled meeting of the Deerfield Village Board of Trustees. The year-long test program provides for five licenses for up to four egg laying hens kept in approved coops in the residents’ back yards. No roosters will be allowed and neighbors will be given notice before the permit issued. License holders will also have to register with the Illinois Department of Agriculture. Get local news in a daily email from Patch. It's like getting a free newspaper. Learn more. “Two people are here who have expressed an interest in a license,” Village Manager Kent Street said. “A third person has called and …
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Wyatt Gardner
3:46 pm on Tuesday, March 19, 2013
I'm gonna take advantage of this chicken ordinance and raise chukar partridge more ›