Chickens were present at a recent city council meeting in Brentwood, CA. Why were they there? To help themselves and others like them from getting evicted out of the city. Apparently, there is a rule that states that these fowl creatures can’t be on a residential lot smaller than 20,000 square feet. They were there to try to persuade the council members to relax this rule.

The hens’ owner, Kimberly Kennedy, insists that she wants to be more sustainable. She also feels that tending to her feathered friends and collecting their eggs will help to teach her children about responsibility.

Her neighbors think that they just stink and draw flies.

I bet these chickens would love to eat some of our red worms! Hopefully our worms won’t find out that I wrote this! Shhh……don’t tell them. They might stop working for us.

Does anyone out there have any chickens? Do they really stink and draw flies?

To read the article written in the Contra Costa Times, go to www.CCTimes.com.

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