Brant County welcomes rural backyard chickens

Egg-cellent news for Brant County hen-thusiasts: rural residents may now keep their own backyard flocks. Just be sure to follow the rules, or you could face a fine — and it’s not cheap. Until now, only people on agricultural zoned lots have been able to keep chickens. But the municipality has been asked to reconsider its stance several times over the last decade, most recently in November 2023. At the time, Mayor David Bailey said it’s “ridiculous” that folks in ne