WHEATLAND TOWNSHIP - Jerry Garrabrant sold half of her video games, and gave up a lot of time in the air-conditioned indoors, to make her family's backyard chicken coop possible.
Jerry, 12, has helped raise five chickens in the coop since the early spring, when the birds were only one day old. It was something she wanted to do. Now, county officials are telling her and her family, the chickens are, well, pollos non gratae
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Also, Ferguson, Missouri's Code Enforcement is attempting to enforce opinions rather than law on a front yard heirloom garden. Learn more here :
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