Bad news from my old pal Phil Kadner at the Southtown: The Summit chicken police are on patrol.
Their target?
Bob Trzeciak, a 51-year-old who has 9 hens and a rooster in a backyard chicken house he built as a child.
No surprise, he got a complaint, even though as Kadner points out, you can hardly hear the chickens over the roar of semi trucks. And there was no odor the day Kadner investigated.
I only speculate that the biggest troublemaker for Trzeciak is his crowing rooster. Most towns, if they allow chickens as pets (and for eggs), draw the line at roosters.
Probably the most disturbing part of Kadner’s piece is the claim by Trzeciak that the mayor told him that “if we let you keep chickens, all the Mexicans in the village will want to keep chickens.”
Scary.
Ironically, right across the street from Trzeciak, in That Toddlin Tolerant Town of Chicago, chickens (no roosters) are legal.
Will Summit learn some backyard manners from its neighbor?
Thanks to Urban Dweller for passing on the story.
Virtual Farmgirl 
When I lived in Zephyrhills, Fla., we had wild, free range chickens and roosters that roamed the neighborhood, I wrote a column about it back in Ought Four .. http://www.sptimes.com/2004/03/28/news_pf/Columns/What_ll_you_doodle_do.shtmlOur wild chickens were cool.
LikeLike
Awesome story Chase. Thanks for sharing. And BTW…how on earth did you manage at AP? You are a born writer…not a likely cog in that machine.
LikeLike
When I lived in Zephyrhills, Fla., we had wild, free range chickens and roosters that roamed the neighborhood, I wrote a column about it back in Ought Four .. http://www.sptimes.com/2004/03/28/news_pf/Columns/What_ll_you_doodle_do.shtmlOur wild chickens were cool.
LikeLike
Awesome story Chase. Thanks for sharing. And BTW…how on earth did you manage at AP? You are a born writer…not a likely cog in that machine.
LikeLike