I don't know whose chickens are coming home to roost, but he doesn't live in Evansville:
Lafayette's urban chicken debate ended Monday night when a city council committee agreed to leave unchanged an ordinance that bans keeping the birds inside the city.
The meeting pitted those who advocated keeping chickens as pets and laying hens against those who argued that the animals smell bad, devalue neighborhood properties and present health hazards.
More than 80 people attended a meeting devoted to the topic. They included urban chicken advocates Linda Schafer and Matthew Arnett, who came dressed in a feathered, canary yellow chicken suit.
"I love chickens because they're wonderful pets. I love them because they're beautiful and civilized," Schafer said. Beside her, Arnett offered a graceful bow.
I'm tempted to say Schafer is delusional, but there has been too much incivility lately. Let's just surmise that she is unfamiliar with certain rural realities, one of which is, as the second paragraph notes, that chickens smell bad, devalue neighborhood properties and present health habits. They're also dumber than a certain substance that they produce in great quantities. Anybody who wants a chicken as a pet instead of being served crisply fried with mashed potatoes and gravy needs to seek serious counseling.
