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Residents urge Owensboro commissioners to allow backyard hens with rules
Summary
Two residents urged the Owensboro City Commission during open public forum to adopt an ordinance allowing backyard hens (no roosters), citing food security, education for children and examples from other Kentucky cities.
Two Owensboro residents used the commission's open public forum to ask city officials to adopt rules allowing backyard hens in residential neighborhoods.
"Hens, not roosters, are pretty quiet, cleaner than many dogs, and produce a lot less waste," said Isabelle Burkett, who gave her address and told commissioners she has spoken to the body previously. Burkett asked for limits such as a cap of four to six hens, no…
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