Barnyard immigration
Our new president has been in office only three weeks, and the trickledown effect of his discrimination, exclusion, and insensitivity has taken hold in our back yards.
The village of Wauconda will allow backyard hens but not roosters. We need to overlook the biological certainties (noise, aggressive behavior, non-contributing to their community, etc.) that would make their exclusion practical and logical.
Instead, we need to consider not only how this makes roosters feel, how those with an affinity to roosters feel, how the hens will feel about their exclusion. America is about being fair, sensitive, and inclusive.
Now, what to do about those hens that identify as roosters?
Keith Gray
Mettawa
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