Texas Town Enforces Chicken Ban, Assaults Sustainable Living
The small city of Lancaster, Texas has had a law on its books banning all chickens within the city limits, but for years it had gone unnoticed and unenforced, until recently. That changed when a local resident found out that the previously unknown law would now be enforced citing anyone who kept chickens within the city limits.
Local food writer and sustainable living proponent Marye Audet, has kept a flock of 19 chickens on her 2 1/4 acre rural homestead for the last five years in a rural area of town, unaware that she was breaking the law by doing so.
“This is not about us living in a subdivision of $400,000.00 homes and being the Beverly Hillbillies.”
