New Jersey is probably not the sort of place you would go to pick up chicks, but one town there actually wants to control how many chicks there are.
In what is being hailed as a revolutionary effort to defeat our chicken foes, the township of Hopewell, N.J. recently adopted an ordinance on when chickens and roosters can get it on and how many hens you can have in a backyard hen house.
The problem, we’re assuming, is not that chickens aren’t tasty and go well with just about any side dish with a white wine, it’s that they are kind of disease-ridden when they aren’t dead, and the roosters can get a bit loud. Good move, Hopewell, population control is the only way to take these earthbound birds down a notch!