Des Moines pushes pause on rooster ban
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5/8/2018
The Des Moines City Council put a proposition to ban roosters on hold after urban farmers cried fowl Monday night.
The city's chief humane officer suggested the change due to complaints over the crowing birds. After hearing arguments both for and against chicken farming in the capital city, council members halted a decisive vote, opting instead to spend more time tweaking the town's pet ordinance.
Martha Swanson, who lives on East 28th Street, told the council her neighbor's rooster crows every 20 seconds from "4:30 in the morning until well past evening."
"The cacophony of noise is distressing and has made my going outdoors no longer enjoyable," Swanson said.
Tanya Keith, an urban farmer in the Riverbend neighborhood who's against the ban, said she doesn't want roosters to "torture" fellow citizens. But Des Moines already has an ordinance that addresses nuisance noise and smell, she said.
Read the full article on the Des Moines Register website.
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