By votes of 4-0, 3-2, and 3-2, the Dysart City Council passed three readings of an ordinance allowing residents to keep chickens inside city limits. Because when chickens are outlawed, only outlaws will have chickens.
Now, will this get hipsters to flock to Dysart, or will residents fly the coop? Such ordinances aren’t quite as rare as hen’s teeth anymore. Davenport legalized chickens earlier this year; Marion did it a year ago. An ordinance has been on the books in Cedar Rapids since 2010. But many cities, including Waverly but NOT Des Moines, ban roosters, so if there are any cocks of the walk in those city limits someone better cry fowl.
(Why yes, this was totally a cheep excuse for a pun post.)