NORTHWOOD – A man who is charged with violating a Northwood city ordinance of owning chickens on his property inside city limits will face trial on Tuesday in Northwood.
Records show that Leo Hendrick was cited by the Worth County Sheriff on September 25th for unlawfully keeping livestock on his property. Mr. Hendrick plead guilty on September 25th and will now face a court date on on Tuesday, October 29th.
Mr. Hendrick wrote NIT earlier this month and explained his predicament, saying that for “some reason here in Northwood we are unable to feed our families the best way each individual family decides. Many cities across this nation allow chickens to be kept within city limits: Des Moines, Council Bluffs, Dubuque, Sioux City, Waterloo, Cedar Rapids, Mason City, and those are just a small fraction found right here in the great State of Iowa. For my family, raising our own eggs and meat is a freedom we shouldn’t have to debate.”
An NIT reader from Northwood said that Mr. Hendrick “has a few chickens in his yard. I walk by all the time and would have never known they were chickens if I didn’t see one. They don’t make any noise.”
The trial is set for October 29th, 2013 at 1:30 pm.
“All this for a few chickens,” Mr. Hendrick wrote on his Facebook page recently.
2 thoughts on “Northwood man’s trial on charges of keeping chickens set for Tuesday”
Under the patriot act (9/11) he could be charged with owning terrorist chickens – What a bunch of BS – This would’nt have anything to do with him running for sheriff of pang county would it?
Jethro, go gets me some fresh possum out of that thar see meant pond. Granny’s gonna cook us up some viddles tonight.