Chicago’s Chicken Ordinance

Animal Housing, Bird Life, Comedy Break, Livestock — by Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor January 30, 2010

This is a rather amusing look at Chicago’s ‘Chicken Ordinance’.

The moral of the story is if it’s not on paper, it doesn’t exist.

4 Comments »

• That was cool audio:)

  In Poland (where I live) clerks would probably give themselves about 30 days to respod to that question…

  Comment by Wojciech Majda — January 31, 2010 @ 1:11 am

• Awesome. This is what John Adams meant by “a government of laws and not of men.” I went through the same thing with my city. The animal control guy came out to investigate the 20 chickens eventually and said I should ask them before doing anything with chickens. I let that pass, but I should have told him I already read the law myself and I certainly didn’t need him to interpret it for me.

  Comment by JBob — February 2, 2010 @ 2:31 am

• That’s great. I’m going to do that right now with Brisbane city council to see what they say.

  Comment by Scott — February 2, 2010 @ 12:47 pm

• So what they said was I could have 6 chickens for a residential block under 800 square meters. She was very friendly and knew exactly where to get the information.

  Comment by Scott — February 2, 2010 @ 12:56 pm

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