The Bremen Town Council members will wait until after the first of the new year to consider a possible animal ordinance amendment concerning the allowance of chickens on properties inside the town limits.
Several residents already have a few chickens on properties in town which is currently not allowed under the town’s current animal ordinance. Those homeowners have been to several Bremen Town Council meetings to sway the council members in changing the ordinance.
Mike Clinger, who initially brought the topic to the council members, previously told the town council that he believes that chickens make good pets and they serve as an educational purpose for children. They also could also produce a source of food for owners. Several others have stated their position, mainly in support of the change in the animal ordinance.
A petition was presented to the council members of several hundred signatures in favor of the change, but many of them were collected on social media and some of the people responding do not live in the town limits of Bremen.
In an earlier meeting, Bremen Town Attorney Anthony Wagner told the council that he would include in a possible ordinance that there would be no roosters, no butchering on site, a limit on the number of chickens allowed, proper maintenance of coops, and the placement of coops on a person’s property.
Bremen Director of Operations Trend Weldy previously stated that he is not in favor of allowing chickens inside town limits and Police Chief Brad Kile has commented the same. Some council members have found people who are not in favor of the change.
